com.lowagie.text.ExceptionConverter.java Source code

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/*
 * The original version of this class was published in an article by professor Heinz Kabutz.
 * Read http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/archive/newsletter.do?issue=033&print=yes&locale=en_US
 * "This material from The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter by Maximum Solutions (South Africa).
 * Please contact Maximum Solutions  for more information."
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2001 Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz
 */

/*
 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
 *
 * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.
 *
 * The Original Code is 'iText, a free JAVA-PDF library'.
 *
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Bruno Lowagie. Portions created by
 * the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Bruno Lowagie.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 * Co-Developer of the code is Paulo Soares. Portions created by the Co-Developer
 * are Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 by Paulo Soares. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s): all the names of the contributors are added in the source code
 * where applicable.
 *
 * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of the
 * LGPL license (the "GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE"), in which case the
 * provisions of LGPL are applicable instead of those above.  If you wish to
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 * If you do not delete the provisions above, a recipient may use your version
 * of this file under either the MPL or the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the MPL as stated above or under the terms of the GNU
 * Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
 * either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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 *
 * If you didn't download this code from the following link, you should check if
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 */
package com.lowagie.text;

/**
 * The ExceptionConverter changes a checked exception into an
 * unchecked exception.
 */
public class ExceptionConverter extends RuntimeException {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 8657630363395849399L;
    /** we keep a handle to the wrapped exception */
    private Exception ex;
    /** prefix for the exception */
    private String prefix;

    /**
     * Construct a RuntimeException based on another Exception
     * @param ex the exception that has to be turned into a RuntimeException
     */
    public ExceptionConverter(Exception ex) {
        this.ex = ex;
        prefix = (ex instanceof RuntimeException) ? "" : "ExceptionConverter: ";
    }

    /**
     * Convert an Exception into an unchecked exception. Return the exception if it is
     * already an unchecked exception or return an ExceptionConverter wrapper otherwise
     *
     * @param ex the exception to convert
     * @return an unchecked exception 
     * @since 2.1.6
     */
    public static final RuntimeException convertException(Exception ex) {
        if (ex instanceof RuntimeException) {
            return (RuntimeException) ex;
        }
        return new ExceptionConverter(ex);
    }

    /**
     * and allow the user of ExceptionConverter to get a handle to it. 
     * @return the original exception
     */
    public Exception getException() {
        return ex;
    }

    /**
     * We print the message of the checked exception 
     * @return message of the original exception
     */
    public String getMessage() {
        return ex.getMessage();
    }

    /**
     * and make sure we also produce a localized version
     * @return localized version of the message
     */
    public String getLocalizedMessage() {
        return ex.getLocalizedMessage();
    }

    /**
     * The toString() is changed to be prefixed with ExceptionConverter 
     * @return String version of the exception
     */
    public String toString() {
        return prefix + ex;
    }

    /** we have to override this as well */
    public void printStackTrace() {
        printStackTrace(System.err);
    }

    /**
     * here we prefix, with s.print(), not s.println(), the stack
     * trace with "ExceptionConverter:" 
     * @param s
     */
    public void printStackTrace(java.io.PrintStream s) {
        synchronized (s) {
            s.print(prefix);
            ex.printStackTrace(s);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Again, we prefix the stack trace with "ExceptionConverter:" 
     * @param s
     */
    public void printStackTrace(java.io.PrintWriter s) {
        synchronized (s) {
            s.print(prefix);
            ex.printStackTrace(s);
        }
    }

    /**
     * requests to fill in the stack trace we will have to ignore.
     * We can't throw an exception here, because this method
     * is called by the constructor of Throwable 
     * @return a Throwable
     */
    public Throwable fillInStackTrace() {
        return this;
    }
}