flash.errors.EOFError - Adobe® Flex® 4 Language Reference (Flex 4)

Package	flash.errors
Class	public dynamic class EOFError
Inheritance	EOFError IOError Error Object

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

AIR 1.0 Flash Player 9, Flash Lite 4

An EOFError exception is thrown when you attempt to read past the end of the available data. For example, an EOFError is thrown when one of the read methods in the IDataInput interface is called and there is insufficient data to satisfy the read request.

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	Property		Defined By
		constructor : Object A reference to the class object or constructor function for a given object instance.	Object
		errorID : int [read-only] Contains the reference number associated with the specific error message.	Error
		message : String Contains the message associated with the Error object.	Error
		name : String Contains the name of the Error object.	Error
		prototype : Object [static] A reference to the prototype object of a class or function object.	Object

Public Methods

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	Method		Defined By
		EOFError(message:String = "") Creates a new EOFError object.	EOFError
		getStackTrace():String Returns the call stack for an error as a string at the time of the error's construction (for the debugger version of Flash Player and the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL) only; returns null if not using the debugger version of Flash Player or the ADL.	Error
		hasOwnProperty(name:String):Boolean Indicates whether an object has a specified property defined.	Object
		isPrototypeOf(theClass:Object):Boolean Indicates whether an instance of the Object class is in the prototype chain of the object specified as the parameter.	Object
		propertyIsEnumerable(name:String):Boolean Indicates whether the specified property exists and is enumerable.	Object
		setPropertyIsEnumerable(name:String, isEnum:Boolean = true):void Sets the availability of a dynamic property for loop operations.	Object
		toLocaleString():String Returns the string representation of this object, formatted according to locale-specific conventions.	Object
		toString():String [override] Returns the string "Error" by default or the value contained in the Error.message property, if defined.	Error
		valueOf():Object Returns the primitive value of the specified object.	Object

Constructor Detail

EOFError

()

Constructor

public function EOFError(message:String = "")

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

AIR 1.0 Flash Player 9

Creates a new EOFError object.

Parameters

message:String (default = "") — A string associated with the error object.

Examples How to use this example

EOFErrorExample.as

The following example uses the EOFErrorExample class to show the error generated if an attempt is made to read past the end of the available data. This is accomplished with the following steps:

The constructor creates a ByteArray object byteArr and writes a Boolean value of false into the byte stream using writeBoolean().
The position of byteArr is reset to 0 (start of the data stream).
A single byte is removed from the data stream using readBoolean(). The data stream now contains no data.
Within an error handling code segment set to catch EOFError objects, readBoolean() is called a second time and the EOFError is caught and passed to a trace() statement, which outputs the error message associated with EOFError objects.

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.errors.EOFError;
    import flash.utils.ByteArray;

    public class EOFErrorExample extends Sprite {        
        public function EOFErrorExample() {
            var byteArr:ByteArray = new ByteArray();

            byteArr.writeBoolean(false);
            trace(byteArr.length);        // 1
            
            byteArr.position = 0;
            try {
                trace(byteArr.readBoolean());    // false
            }
            catch(e:EOFError) {
                trace(e);
            }
            try {
                trace(byteArr.readBoolean());
            } 
            catch(e:EOFError) {
                trace(e);        // EOFError: Error #2030: End of file was encountered.
            }
        }
    }
}