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As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to * the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism. The "exception thrown * by the privileged computation" that is provided at construction time and * accessed via the {@link #getException()} method is now known as the * cause, and may be accessed via the {@link Throwable#getCause()} * method, as well as the aforementioned "legacy method." * * @since 1.2 * @see PrivilegedExceptionAction * @see AccessController#doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction) * @see AccessController#doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction,AccessControlContext) */ public class PrivilegedActionException extends Exception { // use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.2.2 for interoperability private static final long serialVersionUID = 4724086851538908602L; /** * Constructs a new PrivilegedActionException "wrapping" * the specific Exception. * * @param exception The exception thrown */ public PrivilegedActionException(Exception exception) { super(null, exception); // Disallow initCause } /** * Returns the exception thrown by the privileged computation that * resulted in this {@code PrivilegedActionException}. * *

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 exception thrown by the privileged computation that * resulted in this {@code PrivilegedActionException}. * @see PrivilegedExceptionAction * @see AccessController#doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction) * @see AccessController#doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction, * AccessControlContext) */ public Exception getException() { return (Exception)super.getCause(); } public String toString() { String s = getClass().getName(); Throwable cause = super.getCause(); return (cause != null) ? (s + ": " + cause.toString()) : s; } /** * Serializable fields for UndeclaredThrowableException. * * @serialField undeclaredThrowable Throwable */ private static final ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields = { new ObjectStreamField("exception", Exception.class) }; /* * Reconstitutes the PrivilegedActionException instance from a stream * and initialize the cause properly when deserializing from an older * version. * * The getException and getCause method returns the private "exception" * field in the older implementation and PrivilegedActionException::cause * was set to null. */ private void readObject(ObjectInputStream s) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException { ObjectInputStream.GetField fields = s.readFields(); Exception exception = (Exception) fields.get("exception", null); if (exception != null) { SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().setCause(this, exception); } } /* * To maintain compatibility with older implementation, write a serial * "exception" field with the cause as the value. */ private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException { ObjectOutputStream.PutField fields = out.putFields(); fields.put("exception", super.getCause()); out.writeFields(); } }