[rabbitmq-discuss] How get detail error message for IOException to a string variable

[Michael Klishin]

On 13 Feb 2014, at 04:35, cw storm <cwstorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> For error, all I got was "java.io.IOException"  I was hoping I would get a more detail message like "invalid queue name" or something.  I even try "getMessage()" but that return null.
> 
> Am I missing something?

The IOException wraps the underlying cause:

e.getCause()

which often will end up being a com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException
which has a number of methods of its own:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/javadoc/com/rabbitmq/client/ShutdownSignalException.html

MK

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ