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package javax.print;

import javax.print.attribute.Attribute;

/**

 * 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

     * {@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.

     *

     * @return unsupported attribute values

     */

    public Attribute[] getUnsupportedValues();

    }