Throwable.Cause Property
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Returns the cause of this throwable or null if the
cause is nonexistent or unknown.
public virtual Java.Lang.Throwable? Cause { [Android.Runtime.Register("getCause", "()Ljava/lang/Throwable;", "GetGetCauseHandler")] get; }[<get: Android.Runtime.Register("getCause", "()Ljava/lang/Throwable;", "GetGetCauseHandler")>]
member this.Cause : Java.Lang.ThrowableProperty Value
the cause of this throwable or null if the
cause is nonexistent or unknown.
- Attributes
Remarks
Returns the cause of this throwable or null if the cause is nonexistent or unknown. (The cause is the throwable that caused this throwable to get thrown.)
This implementation returns the cause that was supplied via one of the constructors requiring a Throwable, or that was set after creation with the #initCause(Throwable) method. While it is typically unnecessary to override this method, a subclass can override it to return a cause set by some other means. This is appropriate for a "legacy chained throwable" that predates the addition of chained exceptions to Throwable. Note that it is not necessary to override any of the PrintStackTrace methods, all of which invoke the getCause method to determine the cause of a throwable.
Added in 1.4.
Java documentation for java.lang.Throwable.getCause().
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