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1 /*
2  * @(#)AttributeException.java 1.4 03/12/19
3  *
4  * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
5  * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
6  */
7
8 package javax.print;
9
10 import javax.print.attribute.Attribute JavaDoc;
11
12 /**
13  * Interface AttributeException is a mixin interface which a subclass of
14  * {@link
15  * PrintException PrintException} can implement to report an error condition
16  * involving one or more printing attributes that a particular Print
17  * Service instance does not support. Either the attribute is not supported at
18  * all, or the attribute is supported but the particular specified value is not
19  * supported. The Print Service API does not define any print exception
20  * classes that implement interface AttributeException, that being left to the
21  * Print Service implementor's discretion.
22  *
23  */
24
25 public interface AttributeException {
26
27
28     /**
29      * Returns the array of printing attribute classes for which the Print
30      * Service instance does not support the attribute at all, or null if
31      * there are no such attributes. The objects in the returned array are
32      * classes that extend the base interface
33      * {@link javax.print.attribute.Attribute Attribute}.
34      *
35      * @return unsupported attribute classes
36      */
37     public Class JavaDoc[] getUnsupportedAttributes();
38
39     /**
40      * Returns the array of printing attributes for which the Print Service
41      * instance supports the attribute but does not support that particular
42      * value of the attribute, or null if there are no such attribute values.
43      *
44      * @return unsupported attribute values
45      */
46     public Attribute JavaDoc[] getUnsupportedValues();
47
48     }
49
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