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package javax.print;

import javax.print.attribute.Attribute;

Interface AttributeException is a mixin interface which a subclass of PrintException can implement to report an error condition involving one or more printing attributes that a particular Print Service instance does not support. Either the attribute is not supported at all, or the attribute is supported but the particular specified value is not supported. The Print Service API does not define any print exception classes that implement interface AttributeException, that being left to the Print Service implementor's discretion. /**
 * Interface AttributeException is a mixin interface which a subclass of
 * {@link
 * PrintException PrintException} can implement to report an error condition
 * involving one or more printing attributes that a particular Print
 * Service instance does not support. Either the attribute is not supported at
 * all, or the attribute is supported but the particular specified value is not
 * supported. The Print Service API does not define any print exception
 * classes that implement interface AttributeException, that being left to the
 * Print Service implementor's discretion.
 *
 */

public interface AttributeException {


    
Returns the array of printing attribute classes for which the Print Service instance does not support the attribute at all, or null if there are no such attributes. The objects in the returned array are classes that extend the base interface Attribute. 
Returns:
unsupported attribute classes/**
     * Returns the array of printing attribute classes for which the Print
     * Service instance does not support the attribute at all, or null if
     * there are no such attributes. The objects in the returned array are
     * classes that extend the base interface
     * {@link javax.print.attribute.Attribute Attribute}.
     *
     * @return unsupported attribute classes
     */
    public Class[] getUnsupportedAttributes();

    
Returns the array of printing attributes for which the Print Service
instance supports the attribute but does not support that particular
value of the attribute, or null if there are no such attribute values.
Returns:
unsupported attribute values/**
     * Returns the array of printing attributes for which the Print Service
     * instance supports the attribute but does not support that particular
     * value of the attribute, or null if there are no such attribute values.
     *
     * @return unsupported attribute values
     */
    public Attribute[] getUnsupportedValues();

    }