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EOFException

Name

EOFException

Synopsis

Class Name:

java.io.EOFException

Superclass:

java.io.IOException

Immediate Subclasses:

None

Interfaces Implemented:

None

Availability:

JDK 1.0 or later

Description

An EOFException is thrown in response to an attempt to read past the end of a file.

Many file-handling routines indicate the end of a file with a special return code. For example, many read() methods return -1 to indicate that the end of file has been reached. However, in some cases, the program clearly expects a certain format of data in a file. If it's not all there, throwing an exception is an appropriate way to flag the unusual condition of the file. So, for example, a DataInputStream throws an EOFException if it comes to the end of file in the middle of readFloat(). In the java.io package, EOFException is used in the classes that implement the DataInput and ObjectInput interfaces, namely DataInputStream, ObjectInputStream, and RandomAccessFile.

Class Summary

public class java.io.EOFException extends java.io.IOException {
  // Constructors
  public EOFException();
  public EOFException(String s);
}

Constructors

EOFException

public EOFException()

Description

This constructor creates an EOFException with no detail message.

public EOFException(String s)

Parameters

s

The detail message.

Description

This constructor creates an EOFException with the specified detail message.

Inherited Methods

Method

Inherited From

Method

Inherited From

clone()

Object

equals(Object)

Object

fillInStackTrace()

Throwable

finalize()

Object

getClass()

Object

getLocalizedMessage()

Throwable

getMessage()

Throwable

hashCode()

Object

notify()

Object

notifyAll()

Object

printStackTrace()

Throwable

printStackTrace(PrintStream)

Throwable

printStackTrace(PrintWriter)

Throwable

toString()

Object

wait()

Object

wait(long)

Object

wait(long, int)

Object

   

See Also

DataInput, DataInputStream, Exception, IOException, ObjectInput, ObjectInputStream, RandomAccessFile, Throwable


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