protected ReferralException(String explanation)

Constructs a new instance of ReferralException using the explanation supplied. All other fields are set to null.

protected ReferralException()

Constructs a new instance of ReferralException. All fields are set to null.

public abstract Object getReferralInfo()

Retrieves information (such as URLs) related to this referral. The program may examine or display this information to the user to determine whether to continue with the referral, or to determine additional information needs to be supplied in order to continue with the referral.

public abstract Context getReferralContext() throws NamingException

Retrieves the context at which to continue the method. Regardless of whether a referral is encountered directly during a context operation, or indirectly, for example, during a search enumeration, the referral exception should provide a context at which to continue the operation. The referral context is created using the environment properties of the context that threw the ReferralException.

To continue the operation, the client program should re-invoke the method using the same arguments as the original invocation.

public abstract Context getReferralContext(Hashtable<?,?> env) throws NamingException

Retrieves the context at which to continue the method using environment properties. Regardless of whether a referral is encountered directly during a context operation, or indirectly, for example, during a search enumeration, the referral exception should provide a context at which to continue the operation.

The referral context is created using env as its environment properties. This method should be used instead of the no-arg overloaded form when the caller needs to use different environment properties for the referral context. It might need to do this, for example, when it needs to supply different authentication information to the referred server in order to create the referral context.

To continue the operation, the client program should re-invoke the method using the same arguments as the original invocation.

public abstract boolean skipReferral()

Discards the referral about to be processed. A call to this method should be followed by a call to getReferralContext to allow the processing of other referrals to continue. The following code fragment shows a typical usage pattern.

  } catch (ReferralException e) {
      if (!shallIFollow(e.getReferralInfo())) {
          if (!e.skipReferral()) {
              return;
          }
      }
      ctx = e.getReferralContext();
  }
 

public abstract void retryReferral()

Retries the referral currently being processed. A call to this method should be followed by a call to getReferralContext to allow the current referral to be retried. The following code fragment shows a typical usage pattern.

  } catch (ReferralException e) {
      while (true) {
          try {
              ctx = e.getReferralContext(env);
              break;
          } catch (NamingException ne) {
              if (! shallIRetry()) {
                  return;
              }
              // modify environment properties (env), if necessary
              e.retryReferral();
          }
      }
  }