src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFField.java

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          odata[0] = data;
      }
  
      /**
       * Creates a {@code TIFFField} from a TIFF native image
!      * metadata node. If the value of the <tt>"tagNumber"</tt> attribute
       * of the node is not found in {@code tagSet} then a new
       * {@code TIFFTag} with name {@code TIFFTag.UNKNOWN_TAG_NAME}
       * will be created and assigned to the field.
       *
       * @param tagSet The {@code TIFFTagSet} to which the
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          odata[0] = data;
      }
  
      /**
       * Creates a {@code TIFFField} from a TIFF native image
!      * metadata node. If the value of the <tt>"number"</tt> attribute
       * of the node is not found in {@code tagSet} then a new
       * {@code TIFFTag} with name {@code TIFFTag.UNKNOWN_TAG_NAME}
       * will be created and assigned to the field.
       *
       * @param tagSet The {@code TIFFTagSet} to which the
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       * @param node A native TIFF image metadata {@code TIFFField} node.
       * @throws NullPointerException if {@code node} is
       * {@code null}.
       * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the name of the node is not
       * {@code "TIFFField"}.
+      * @throws NullPointerException if the node does not contain any data.
+      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the combination of node attributes
+      * and data is not legal per the {@link #TIFFField(TIFFTag,int,int,Object)}
+      * constructor specification.
       * @return A new {@code TIFFField}.
       */
      public static TIFFField createFromMetadataNode(TIFFTagSet tagSet,
                                                     Node node) {
          if (node == null) {