Module org.apache.sis.util
Package org.apache.sis.util

Class CorruptedObjectException

Object
Throwable
Exception
RuntimeException
CorruptedObjectException
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable
public class CorruptedObjectException extends RuntimeException
May be thrown on attempt to use an object which has been corrupted by a previous operation. Apache SIS throws this exception only on a best effort basis, when it detected an object in an inconsistent state after the original problem.
Analogy: this exception has a similar goal than Concurrent­Modification­Exception: to reduce the risk of non-deterministic behavior at an undetermined time in the future after an event has compromised the data integrity. Like Concurrent­Modification­Exception, this Corrupted­Object­Exception should be used only to detect bugs; it would be wrong to write a program that depends on this exception for its correctness.

This exception is different than Assertion­Error in that Corrupted­Object­Exception is not necessarily caused by a bug in the library. An object may become corrupted because of external factors, as illustrated in the use cases below.

Some use cases for this exception are:
  • Attempt to use an aborted calculation:
    if an operation failed in the middle of a structural modification, some specific exception (not this Corrupted­Object­Exception) should be thrown and the object discarded. But if the user does not discard the object and try to use it again, unpredictable behavior may happen. Some implementations are robust enough for detecting such unsafe usage: their methods may throw this Corrupted­Object­Exception on attempt to use the object after the original failure.
  • Change in an “immutable” object:
    some objects are expected to be immutable. For example, the same Coordinate Reference System (CRS) instance is typically shared by thousands of objects. However, Coordinate­Reference­System is an interface, Therefore, nothing prevent users from providing a mutable instance. For example if the value returned by Coordinate­System​.get­Dimension() changes between two invocations, many objects that use that coordinate system will fall in an inconsistent state. If an operation detects such inconsistency, it may throw this Corrupted­Object­Exception.

Exception cause

Since this exception may be thrown an undetermined amount of time after the data corruption, the root cause is often unknown at this point. Sometimes a more descriptive exception has been thrown earlier, but may have been ignored by the user.
Since:
0.5
See Also:

  • Constructor Details

    • CorruptedObjectException

      public CorruptedObjectException()
      Constructs a new exception with no message.

    • CorruptedObjectException

      public CorruptedObjectException(String message)
      Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message.
      Parameters:
      message - the detail message, or null if none.

    • CorruptedObjectException

      public CorruptedObjectException(Exception cause)
      Constructs a new exception with the specified cause.
      Parameters:
      cause - the cause, or null if none.
      Since:
      1.0

    • CorruptedObjectException

      public CorruptedObjectException(IdentifiedObject object)
      Constructs a new exception with the name of the given object.
      Parameters:
      object - the corrupted object, or null if unknown.
      Since:
      0.6