diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/NullArgumentException.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/NullArgumentException.java deleted file mode 100644 index 0eac6680a..000000000 --- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/NullArgumentException.java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -/* - * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more - * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with - * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. - * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 - * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with - * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at - * - * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - * - * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software - * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, - * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. - * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and - * limitations under the License. - */ -package org.apache.commons.lang; - -/** - *
Thrown to indicate that an argument was null
and should
- * not have been.
- * This exception supplements the standard IllegalArgumentException
- * by providing a more semantically rich description of the problem.
NullArgumentException
represents the case where a method takes
- * in a parameter that must not be null
.
- * Some coding standards would use NullPointerException
for this case,
- * others will use IllegalArgumentException
.
- * Thus this exception would be used in place of
- * IllegalArgumentException
, yet it still extends it.
- * public void foo(String str) { - * if (str == null) { - * throw new NullArgumentException("str"); - * } - * // do something with the string - * } - *- * - * @author Matthew Hawthorne - * @author Stephen Colebourne - * @since 2.0 - * @version $Id$ - */ -public class NullArgumentException extends IllegalArgumentException { - - /** - * Required for serialization support. - * - * @see java.io.Serializable - */ - private static final long serialVersionUID = 1174360235354917591L; - - /** - *
Instantiates with the given argument name.
- * - * @param argName the name of the argument that wasnull
.
- */
- public NullArgumentException(String argName) {
- super((argName == null ? "Argument" : argName) + " must not be null.");
- }
-
-}