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IncompleteAnnotationException signals an attempt to access a missing element of an annotation, occurring when the element was added after compilation or serialization.
This exception arises if the new annotation element lacks a default value and is accessed through reflection using the AnnotatedElement API.
It provides methods to retrieve the annotation type (annotationType()) and the name of the missing element (elementName()).
public class
IncompleteAnnotationException
extends RuntimeException
Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of
an annotation type that was added to the annotation type definition after
the annotation was compiled (or serialized). This exception will not be
thrown if the new element has a default value.
This exception can be thrown by the {@linkplain java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement API used to read annotations
reflectively}.
Returns an array containing all of the exceptions that were
suppressed, typically by the try-with-resources
statement, in order to deliver this exception.
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