org.glassfish.hk2.api

Interface ErrorInformation

public interface ErrorInformation

This class has information in it about the error that has occurred

Author:

jwells

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
MultiException	getAssociatedException() This will contain the associated exception or exceptions that caused the failure.
Descriptor	getDescriptor() This will contain the active descriptor that is associated with this failure.
ErrorType	getErrorType() Gets the type of error that has occurred.
Injectee	getInjectee() This will contain information about the Injectee that was being injected into when the error occurred.

Method Detail

getErrorType

ErrorType getErrorType()

Gets the type of error that has occurred. Code should be written such that future error types are handled appropriately.

Returns:

• ErrorType.FAILURE_TO_REIFY
• ErrorType.DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION_FAILURE
• ErrorType.SERVICE_CREATION_FAILURE
• ErrorType.SERVICE_DESTRUCTION_FAILURE

getDescriptor

Descriptor getDescriptor()

This will contain the active descriptor that is associated with this failure. In the case of FAILURE_TO_REIFY it will contain the descriptor that failed to reify. In the DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION_FAILURE case this will return null. In SERVICE_CREATION_FAILURE and SERVICE_DESTRUCTION_FAILURE it will contain the descriptor whose create or destroy methods failed

Returns:

The descriptor associated with this failure

getInjectee

Injectee getInjectee()

This will contain information about the Injectee that was being injected into when the error occurred.

In the case of FAILURE_TO_REIFY this will be the injectee that was being looked up to satisfy the injection point, or null if this lookup was due to an API call.

In the cases of DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION_FAILURE, SERVICE_CREATION_FAILURE and SERVICE_DESTRUCTION_FAILURE this will return null.

Returns:

The injectee associated with this failure

getAssociatedException

MultiException getAssociatedException()

This will contain the associated exception or exceptions that caused the failure.

In the case of FAILURE_TO_REIFY this will contain the exception that caused the reification process to fail

In the case of DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION_FAILURE this will contain the exception that cause the configuration operation to fail

In the case of SERVICE_CREATION_FAILURE this will contain the exception that was thrown during service creation

In the case of SERVICE_DESTRUCTION_FAILURE this will contain the exception that was thrown during service destruction

Returns:

The exception associated with this failure