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As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to * the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism. The "target exception" * that is provided at construction time and accessed via the * {@link #getTargetException()} method is now known as the cause, * and may be accessed via the {@link Throwable#getCause()} method, * as well as the aforementioned "legacy method." * * @see Method * @see Constructor * @since 1.1 */ public class InvocationTargetException extends ReflectiveOperationException { /** * Use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.1.X for interoperability */ private static final long serialVersionUID = 4085088731926701167L; /** * Constructs an {@code InvocationTargetException} with * {@code null} as the target exception. */ protected InvocationTargetException() { super((Throwable)null); // Disallow initCause } /** * Constructs a InvocationTargetException with a target exception. * * @param target the target exception */ public InvocationTargetException(Throwable target) { super(null, target); // Disallow initCause } /** * Constructs a InvocationTargetException with a target exception * and a detail message. * * @param target the target exception * @param s the detail message */ public InvocationTargetException(Throwable target, String s) { super(s, target); // Disallow initCause } /** * Get the thrown target exception. * *

This method predates the general-purpose exception chaining facility. * The {@link Throwable#getCause()} method is now the preferred means of * obtaining this information. * * @return the thrown target exception (cause of this exception). */ public Throwable getTargetException() { return super.getCause(); } /** * Serializable fields for UndeclaredThrowableException. * * @serialField target Throwable */ private static final ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields = { new ObjectStreamField("target", Throwable.class) }; /* * Reconstitutes the InvocationTargetException instance from a stream * and initialize the cause properly when deserializing from an older * version. * * The getException and getCause method returns the private "target" field * in the older implementation and InvocationTargetException::cause * was set to null. */ private void readObject(ObjectInputStream s) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException { ObjectInputStream.GetField fields = s.readFields(); Throwable exception = (Throwable) fields.get("target", null); if (exception != null) { SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().setCause(this, exception); } } /* * To maintain compatibility with older implementation, write a serial * "target" field with the cause as the value. */ private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException { ObjectOutputStream.PutField fields = out.putFields(); fields.put("target", super.getCause()); out.writeFields(); } }