From c2260cf38d0e4155f7241863b73ec1f54fa0a8e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bradford Powell <bradford.powell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 21:01:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Throw ExceptionInInitializerError rather than just printing
 stacktrace to stderr if the native libraries cannot be loaded. Because Errors
 are not checked exceptions, added to the javadoc to point out that static
 initialization of Snappy can throw this Error.

---
 src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
index dac227f..e44ded2 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ package org.xerial.snappy;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
  * Snappy API for data compression/decompression
+ *
+ * Note: if the native libraries cannot be loaded, then an ExceptionInInitializerError
+ * will be thrown at first use of this class.
  * 
  * @author leo
  * 
@@ -44,7 +48,7 @@ public class Snappy
             impl = SnappyLoader.load();
         }
         catch (Exception e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
+            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
         }
     }