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package javax.print;
import javax.print.attribute.Attribute;
/**
* Interface AttributeException is a mixin interface which a subclass of
* {@link
* PrintException PrintException} can implement to report an error condition
* involving one or more printing attributes that a particular Print
* Service instance does not support. Either the attribute is not supported at
* all, or the attribute is supported but the particular specified value is not
* supported. The Print Service API does not define any print exception
* classes that implement interface AttributeException, that being left to the
* Print Service implementor's discretion.
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*/
public interface AttributeException {
/**
* Returns the array of printing attribute classes for which the Print
* Service instance does not support the attribute at all, or null if
* there are no such attributes. The objects in the returned array are
* classes that extend the base interface
* {@link javax.print.attribute.Attribute Attribute}.
*
* @return unsupported attribute classes
*/
public Class[] getUnsupportedAttributes();
/**
* Returns the array of printing attributes for which the Print Service
* instance supports the attribute but does not support that particular
* value of the attribute, or null if there are no such attribute values.
*
* @return unsupported attribute values
*/
public Attribute[] getUnsupportedValues();
}