core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/plugins/PluginAssertionFailure.java

package org.apache.commons.digester3.plugins;

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/**
 * Thrown when a bug is detected in the plugins code.
 * <p>
 * This class is intended to be used in assertion statements, similar to the way that java 1.4's native assertion
 * mechanism is used. However there is a difference: when a java 1.4 assertion fails, an AssertionError is thrown, which
 * is a subclass of Error; here, the PluginAssertionFailure class extends RuntimeException rather than Error.
 * <p>
 * This difference in design is because throwing Error objects is not good in a container-based architecture.
 * <p>
 * Example:
 *
 * <pre>
 * if ( impossibleCondition )
 * {
 *     throw new PluginAssertionFailure( &quot;internal error: impossible condition is true&quot; );
 * }
 * </pre>
 * <p>
 * Note that PluginAssertionFailure should <i>not</i> be thrown when user input is bad, or when code external to the
 * Digester module passes invalid parameters to a plugins method. It should be used only in checks for problems which
 * indicate internal bugs within the plugins module.
 *
 * @since 1.6
 */
public class PluginAssertionFailure
    extends RuntimeException
{

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    /**
     * Constructs a new exception with the specified cause.
     *
     * @param cause underlying exception that caused this to be thrown
     */
    public PluginAssertionFailure( final Throwable cause )
    {
        super( cause );
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message.
     *
     * @param msg describes the reason this exception is being thrown.
     */
    public PluginAssertionFailure( final String msg )
    {
        super( msg );
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message and cause.
     *
     * @param msg describes the reason this exception is being thrown.
     * @param cause underlying exception that caused this to be thrown
     */
    public PluginAssertionFailure( final String msg, final Throwable cause )
    {
        super( msg, cause );
    }

}