Throwable.getLocalizedMessage() Method

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Description

The java.lang.Throwable.getLocalizedMessage() method creates a localized description of this throwable. Subclasses may override this method in order to produce a locale-specific message.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.Throwable.getLocalizedMessage() method

public String getLocalizedMessage()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns the localized description of this throwable.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.Throwable.getLocalizedMessage() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.*;

public class ThrowableDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {

     try {
         newException();
      } catch(Throwable e) { 
         System.err.println(e);
         // localized description of this throwable
         System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage());
      }
   }
  
   public static void newException() throws Exception {
      System.out.println("This is newException() function");
      throw new Exception("new Exception...");
   }
} 

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

This is newException() function
new Exception...
java.lang.Exception: new Exception...