DirectoryIteratorException (Java Platform SE 8 ) (original) (raw)

• java.lang.Object

• • java.lang.Throwable
  • • java.lang.Exception
      • • java.lang.RuntimeException
          * * java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
          * * java.nio.file.DirectoryIteratorException

• All Implemented Interfaces:
  Serializable

public final class DirectoryIteratorException
extends ConcurrentModificationException
Runtime exception thrown if an I/O error is encountered when iterating over the entries in a directory. The I/O error is retrieved as an IOException using the getCause() method.
Since:
1.7
See Also:
DirectoryStream, Serialized Form

• • Constructor Summary

  Constructors

  Constructor	Description
  DirectoryIteratorException(IOException cause)	Constructs an instance of this class.

  • Method Summary

  All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  IOException	getCause()	Returns the cause of this exception.

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• • Constructor Detail

     * #### DirectoryIteratorException  
     public DirectoryIteratorException([IOException](../../../java/io/IOException.html "class in java.io") cause)  
     Constructs an instance of this class.  
     Parameters:  
     `cause` \- the `IOException` that caused the directory iteration to fail  
     Throws:  
     `[NullPointerException](../../../java/lang/NullPointerException.html "class in java.lang")` \- if the cause is `null`  

  • Method Detail

    * #### getCause  
    public [IOException](../../../java/io/IOException.html "class in java.io") getCause()  
    Returns the cause of this exception.  
    Overrides:  
    `[getCause](../../../java/lang/Throwable.html#getCause--)` in class `[Throwable](../../../java/lang/Throwable.html "class in java.lang")`  
    Returns:  
    the cause

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