Added in API level 1

PrivilegedActionException

public class PrivilegedActionException
extends Exception

java.lang.Object
   ↳ java.lang.Throwable
     ↳ java.lang.Exception
       ↳ java.security.PrivilegedActionException


Legacy security code; do not use. This exception is thrown by doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction) and doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction, AccessControlContext context) to indicate that the action being performed threw a checked exception. The exception thrown by the action can be obtained by calling the getException method. In effect, an PrivilegedActionException is a "wrapper" for an exception thrown by a privileged action.

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 getException() method is now known as the cause, and may be accessed via the Throwable.getCause() method, as well as the aforementioned "legacy method."

Summary

Public constructors

PrivilegedActionException(Exception exception)

Constructs a new PrivilegedActionException "wrapping" the specific Exception.

Public methods

Throwable getCause()

Returns the cause of this exception (the exception thrown by the privileged computation that resulted in this PrivilegedActionException).

Exception getException()

Returns the exception thrown by the privileged computation that resulted in this PrivilegedActionException.

String toString()

Returns a short description of this throwable.

Inherited methods

final void addSuppressed(Throwable exception)

Appends the specified exception to the exceptions that were suppressed in order to deliver this exception.

Throwable fillInStackTrace()

Fills in the execution stack trace.

Throwable getCause()

Returns the cause of this throwable or null if the cause is nonexistent or unknown.

String getLocalizedMessage()

Creates a localized description of this throwable.

String getMessage()

Returns the detail message string of this throwable.

StackTraceElement[] getStackTrace()

Provides programmatic access to the stack trace information printed by printStackTrace().

final Throwable[] getSuppressed()

Returns an array containing all of the exceptions that were suppressed, typically by the try-with-resources statement, in order to deliver this exception.

Throwable initCause(Throwable cause)

Initializes the cause of this throwable to the specified value.

void printStackTrace()

Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the standard error stream.

void printStackTrace(PrintWriter s)

Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the specified print writer.

void printStackTrace(PrintStream s)

Prints this throwable and its backtrace to the specified print stream.

void setStackTrace(StackTraceElement[] stackTrace)

Sets the stack trace elements that will be returned by getStackTrace() and printed by printStackTrace() and related methods.

String toString()

Returns a short description of this throwable.

Object clone()

Creates and returns a copy of this object.

boolean equals(Object obj)

Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

void finalize()

Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object.

final Class<?> getClass()

Returns the runtime class of this Object.

int hashCode()

Returns a hash code value for the object.

final void notify()

Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.

final void notifyAll()

Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.

String toString()

Returns a string representation of the object.

final void wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos)

Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

final void wait(long timeoutMillis)

Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

final void wait()

Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.

Public constructors

PrivilegedActionException

Added in API level 1
public PrivilegedActionException (Exception exception)

Constructs a new PrivilegedActionException "wrapping" the specific Exception.

Parameters
exception Exception: The exception thrown

Public methods

getCause

Added in API level 1
public Throwable getCause ()

Returns the cause of this exception (the exception thrown by the privileged computation that resulted in this PrivilegedActionException).

Returns
Throwable the cause of this exception.

getException

Added in API level 1
public Exception getException ()

Returns the exception thrown by the privileged computation that resulted in this PrivilegedActionException.

This method predates the general-purpose exception chaining facility. The Throwable.getCause() method is now the preferred means of obtaining this information.

Returns
Exception the exception thrown by the privileged computation that resulted in this PrivilegedActionException.

toString

Added in API level 1
public String toString ()

Returns a short description of this throwable. The result is the concatenation of:

  • the name of the class of this object
  • ": " (a colon and a space)
  • the result of invoking this object's getLocalizedMessage() method
If getLocalizedMessage returns null, then just the class name is returned.

Returns
String a string representation of this throwable.