I'm converting some C# code to Java and I need to include an exception that is similar to C#'s InvalidOperationException. Does such a thing exist? Also is there a list of equivalent exception types in the two languages? Thanks.
C is a middle-level language as it binds the bridges between machine-level and high-level languages. Java is a high-level language as the translation of Java code takes place into machine language, using a compiler or interpreter. C is only compiled and not interpreted. Java is both compiled and interpreted.
These two languages are very similar in terms of syntax and language features. They are so similar that if you're shown some portion of C++ code from a project and asked whether it's C++ or Java code, you may confuse yourself.
Java and C# are incredibly similar. Both languages are somewhat derived from C++ and from similar first principles. Java was developed in 1995 to create a language with a simpler programming model than C++ while still preserving some of the same syntax of the language to facilitate developers transitioning to it.
C is a compiled language that is it converts the code into machine language so that it could be understood by the machine or system. Java is an Interpreted language that is in Java, the code is first transformed into bytecode and that bytecode is then executed by the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
Probably IllegalStateException
.
From what I read about InvalidOperationException: "The exception that is thrown when a method call is invalid for the object's current state."
For IllegalStateException
: "Signals that a method has been invoked at an illegal or inappropriate time. In other words, the Java environment or Java application is not in an appropriate state for the requested operation."
Depending on how you are using InvalidOperationException
, I could also see IllegalArgumentException
and UnsupportedOperationException
being what you want. The former implies that, in general, the method is fine to call, it was just passed garbage this time; the latter implies that the method is never appropriate to call for this instance (unlike IllegalStateException
, which implies that it might be appropriate to call the subject method sometimes, just not at the moment).
I am not aware of a general c# <=> Java translation of exceptions.
Petar pointed me to this example code (from msdn)
void WriteLog() { if (!this.logFile.CanWrite) { throw new System.InvalidOperationException("Logfile cannot be read-only"); } // Else write data to the log and return. }
So in this context you could use an IllegalStateException, although it says:
Thrown when an action is attempted at a time when the virtual machine is not in the correct state.
And an illegal VM state is definitly not the issue in the above reference example. Here, the problem is that the object is invalid, because it references a read-only logfile.
My own advice: just define a custom exception like
package com.pany.project; public class InvalidOperationException extends RuntimeException { // add constructors with call to super as needed }
To me, that's much easier then trying to find the best fitting Exception from the java.lang
package.
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