org.jboss.arquillian.test.spi

Class ExceptionProxy

java.lang.Object

org.jboss.arquillian.test.spi.ExceptionProxy

All Implemented Interfaces:

Externalizable, Serializable

public class ExceptionProxy
extends Object
implements Externalizable

Takes an exception class and creates a proxy that can be used to rebuild the exception. The problem stems from problems serializing exceptions and deserializing them in another application where the exception classes might not exist, or they might exist in different version. This proxy also propagates the stacktrace and the cause exception to create totally portable exceptions.

This class creates a serializable proxy of the exception and when unserialized can be used to re-create the exception based on the following rules :

• If the exception class exists on the client, the original exception is created
• If the exception class exists, but doesn't have a suitable constructor then another exception is thrown referencing the original exception
• If the exception class exists, but is not throwable, another exception is thrown referencing the original exception
• If the exception class doesn't exist, another exception is raised instead

Author:

Andy Gibson

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ExceptionProxy()
ExceptionProxy(Throwable throwable)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Throwable	createException() Constructs an instance of the proxied exception based on the class name, message, stack trace and if applicable, the cause.
static ExceptionProxy	createForException(Throwable throwable) Static method to create an exception proxy for the passed in Throwable class.
ArquillianProxyException	createProxyException(String reason)
Throwable	getCause() Returns the cause of the exception represented by this proxy
boolean	hasException() Indicates whether this proxy wraps an exception
void	readExternal(ObjectInput in) Custom Serialization logic.
String	toString()
void	writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ExceptionProxy

public ExceptionProxy()

ExceptionProxy

public ExceptionProxy(Throwable throwable)

Method Detail

hasException

public boolean hasException()

Indicates whether this proxy wraps an exception

Returns:

Flag indicating an exception is wrapped.

createException

public Throwable createException()

Constructs an instance of the proxied exception based on the class name, message, stack trace and if applicable, the cause.

Returns:

The constructed Throwable instance

createProxyException

public ArquillianProxyException createProxyException(String reason)

createForException

public static ExceptionProxy createForException(Throwable throwable)

Static method to create an exception proxy for the passed in Throwable class. If null is passed in, null is returned as the exception proxy

Parameters:

throwable - Exception to proxy

Returns:

An ExceptionProxy representing the exception passed in

getCause

public Throwable getCause()

Returns the cause of the exception represented by this proxy

Returns:

The cause of this exception

readExternal

public void readExternal(ObjectInput in)
                  throws IOException,
                         ClassNotFoundException

Custom Serialization logic. If possible, we try to keep the original Exception form the Container side. If we can't load the Exception on the client side, return a ArquillianProxyException that keeps the original stack trace etc. We can't use in.readObject() on the Throwable cause, because if a ClassNotFoundException is thrown, the stream is marked with the exception and that stream is the same stream that is deserializing us, so we will fail outside of our control. Store the Throwable cause as a serialized byte array instead, so we can deserialize it outside of our own stream.

Specified by:

readExternal in interface Externalizable

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

writeExternal

public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)
                   throws IOException

Specified by:

writeExternal in interface Externalizable

Throws:

IOException

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object