1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 3 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this 4 * work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF 5 * licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 6 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 8 * 9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 10 * 11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT 13 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the 14 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under 15 * the License. 16 */ 17 18 package java.lang.annotation; 19 20 import java.lang.reflect.Method; 21 22 /** 23 * Indicates that an annotation type has changed since it was compiled or 24 * serialized. 25 * 26 * @since 1.5 27 */ 28 public class AnnotationTypeMismatchException extends RuntimeException { 29 30 private static final long serialVersionUID = 8125925355765570191L; 31 32 private Method element; 33 34 private String foundType; 35 36 /** 37 * Constructs an instance for the given type element and the type found. 38 * 39 * @param element 40 * the annotation type element. 41 * @param foundType 42 * the invalid type that was found. This is actually the textual 43 * type description found in the binary class representation, 44 * so it may not be human-readable. 45 */ 46 public AnnotationTypeMismatchException(Method element, String foundType) { 47 super("The annotation element " + element + " doesn't match the type " + foundType); 48 this.element = element; 49 this.foundType = foundType; 50 } 51 52 /** 53 * Returns the method object for the invalid type. 54 * 55 * @return a {@link Method} instance. 56 */ 57 public Method element() { 58 return element; 59 } 60 61 /** 62 * Returns the invalid type. 63 * 64 * @return a string describing the invalid data. 65 */ 66 public String foundType() { 67 return foundType; 68 } 69 } 70
