ThingMagic Mercury API v1.23.0 - Manual (Page 33)

Exceptions
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Exceptions
In the event of an error, methods of this interface may throw a ReaderException, which
will contain a string describing the error. Several subtypes exist:
ReaderCommException
This exception is used in the event of a detected failure of the underlying communication
mechanism (timeout, network fault, CRC error, etc). This class includes a method:
byte[] getReaderMessage()
that returns the message where the failure was detected.
ReaderCodeException
This exception is used for errors reported from the reader device. The class includes a
method:
int getCode()
that returns the numeric error code reported by the device. This code can be very useful
to ThingMagic Support when debugging a problem.
See the reader specific Hardware Guide for details on the error codes returned.
ReaderParseException
This exception is used when a message was successfully received from the device, but
the format could not be understood by the API.
ReaderFatalException
This exception is used in the event of an error in the device or API that cannot be
recovered from. All device operations will fail after reception of this exception. This
exception indicates a potentially damaging situation has occurred, or the reader is
damaged, and the reader has reset.
In the event of receiving a ReaderFatalException error from a reader device, the
message returned with the exception will be included in the exception string, in ASCII