Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of an annotation type that was added to the annotation type definition after the annotation was compiled (or serialized). This exception will not be thrown if the new element has a default value. This exception can be thrown by the {@linkplain java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement API used to read annotations reflectively}.
See Also
Public Constructor Summary
IncompleteAnnotationException(Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType, String elementName)
Constructs an IncompleteAnnotationException to indicate that
the named element was missing from the specified annotation type.
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Public Method Summary
Class<? extends Annotation> |
annotationType()
Returns the Class object for the annotation type with the
missing element.
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String |
elementName()
Returns the name of the missing element.
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Inherited Method Summary
Public Constructors
public IncompleteAnnotationException (Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType, String elementName)
Constructs an IncompleteAnnotationException to indicate that the named element was missing from the specified annotation type.
Parameters
annotationType | the Class object for the annotation type |
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elementName | the name of the missing element |
Throws
NullPointerException | if either parameter is null
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Public Methods
public Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType ()
Returns the Class object for the annotation type with the missing element.
Returns
- the Class object for the annotation type with the missing element
public String elementName ()
Returns the name of the missing element.
Returns
- the name of the missing element