org.apache.commons.lang
Class NullArgumentException

java.lang.Object
  extended byjava.lang.Throwable
      extended byjava.lang.Exception
          extended byjava.lang.RuntimeException
              extended byjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
                  extended byorg.apache.commons.lang.NullArgumentException
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable

public class NullArgumentException
extends IllegalArgumentException

Thrown to indicate that an argument was null and should not have been. This exception supplements the standard IllegalArgumentException by providing a more semantically rich description of the problem.

NullArgumentException represents the case where a method takes in a parameter that must not be null. Some coding standards would use NullPointerException for this case, others will use IllegalArgumentException. Thus this exception would be used in place of IllegalArgumentException, yet it still extends it.

 public void foo(String str) {
   if (str == null) {
     throw new NullArgumentException("str");
   }
   // do something with the string
 }
 

Since:
2.0
Version:
$Id: NullArgumentException.java 161243 2005-04-14 04:30:28Z ggregory $
Author:
Matthew Hawthorne, Stephen Colebourne
See Also:
Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
NullArgumentException(String argName)
          Instantiates with the given argument name.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Throwable
fillInStackTrace, getCause, getLocalizedMessage, getMessage, getStackTrace, initCause, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, setStackTrace, toString
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

NullArgumentException

public NullArgumentException(String argName)

Instantiates with the given argument name.

Parameters:
argName - the name of the argument that was null.


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