Class TransformerException

public TransformerException(String msg)

Constructor with a detail message.

public TransformerException(String msg,
                            Throwable cause)

Constructor with a detail message and underlying cause.

public TransformerException(String msg,
                            SourceLocator locator)

Constructor with a detail message and locator.

public TransformerException(String msg,
                            SourceLocator locator,
                            Throwable cause)

Constructor with detail message, locator and underlying cause.

public TransformerException(Throwable cause)

Constructor with an underlying cause.

public Throwable getCause()

Returns the underlying cause of this exception.

Overrides:

getCause in interface Throwable

public Throwable getException()

Returns the underlying cause of this exception.

public String getLocationAsString()

Returns the location information as a string.

public SourceLocator getLocator()

Returns a locator indicating where the error occurred.

public String getMessageAndLocation()

Returns the exception message with location information appended.

public Throwable initCause(Throwable cause)

Initializes the root cause of this exception. This method may be called only once, and will be called by the constructor if a non-null cause is specified. Really phenomenally poor API design.

Overrides:

initCause in interface Throwable

Parameters:

cause - the underlying cause

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if this exception is passed as the argument

IllegalStateException - if a cause has already been initialized

public void printStackTrace()

Print a stack trace to the standard error stream. This stream is the current contents of System.err. The first line of output is the result of Throwable.toString(), and the remaining lines represent the data created by Throwable.fillInStackTrace(). While the format is unspecified, this implementation uses the suggested format, demonstrated by this example:

 public class Junk
 {
   public static void main(String args[])
   {
     try
       {
         a();
       }
     catch(HighLevelException e)
       {
         e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
   static void a() throws HighLevelException
   {
     try
       {
         b();
       }
     catch(MidLevelException e)
       {
         throw new HighLevelException(e);
       }
   }
   static void b() throws MidLevelException
   {
     c();
   }
   static void c() throws MidLevelException
   {
     try
       {
         d();
       }
     catch(LowLevelException e)
       {
         throw new MidLevelException(e);
       }
   }
   static void d() throws LowLevelException
   {
     e();
   }
   static void e() throws LowLevelException
   {
     throw new LowLevelException();
   }
 }
 class HighLevelException extends Exception
 {
   HighLevelException(Throwable cause) { super(cause); }
 }
 class MidLevelException extends Exception
 {
   MidLevelException(Throwable cause)  { super(cause); }
 }
 class LowLevelException extends Exception
 {
 }
 

  HighLevelException: MidLevelException: LowLevelException
          at Junk.a(Junk.java:13)
          at Junk.main(Junk.java:4)
  Caused by: MidLevelException: LowLevelException
          at Junk.c(Junk.java:23)
          at Junk.b(Junk.java:17)
          at Junk.a(Junk.java:11)
          ... 1 more
  Caused by: LowLevelException
          at Junk.e(Junk.java:30)
          at Junk.d(Junk.java:27)
          at Junk.c(Junk.java:21)
          ... 3 more
 

Overrides:

printStackTrace in interface Throwable

public void printStackTrace(PrintStream s)

Print a stack trace to the specified PrintStream. See Throwable.printStackTrace() for the sample format.

Overrides:

printStackTrace in interface Throwable

Parameters:

s - the PrintStream to write the trace to

public void printStackTrace(PrintWriter s)

Prints the exception, the detailed message and the stack trace associated with this Throwable to the given PrintWriter. The actual output written is implemention specific. Use the result of getStackTrace() when more precise information is needed.

This implementation first prints a line with the result of this object's toString() method.
Then for all elements given by getStackTrace it prints a line containing three spaces, the string "at " and the result of calling the toString() method on the StackTraceElement object. If getStackTrace() returns an empty array it prints a line containing three spaces and the string "<<No stacktrace available>>".
Then if getCause() doesn't return null it adds a line starting with "Caused by: " and the result of calling toString() on the cause.
Then for every cause (of a cause, etc) the stacktrace is printed the same as for the top level Throwable except that as soon as all the remaining stack frames of the cause are the same as the the last stack frames of the throwable that the cause is wrapped in then a line starting with three spaces and the string "... X more" is printed, where X is the number of remaining stackframes.

Overrides:

printStackTrace in interface Throwable

Parameters:

Since:

1.1

public void setLocator(SourceLocator location)

Sets the locator indicating where the error occurred.