src/java/org/apache/commons/digester/plugins/PluginAssertionFailure.java

/* $Id: PluginAssertionFailure.java,v 1.8 2004/05/10 06:44:13 skitching Exp $
 *
 * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
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package org.apache.commons.digester.plugins;

/**
 * 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(
 *       "internal error: impossible condition is true");
 *   }
 * </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 Throwable cause = null;

    /**
     * @param cause underlying exception that caused this to be thrown
     */
    public PluginAssertionFailure(Throwable cause) {
        this(cause.getMessage());
        this.cause = cause;
    }

    /**
     * @param msg describes the reason this exception is being thrown.
     */
    public PluginAssertionFailure(String msg) {
        super(msg);
    }

    /**
     * @param msg describes the reason this exception is being thrown.
     * @param cause underlying exception that caused this to be thrown
     */
    public PluginAssertionFailure(String msg, Throwable cause) {
        this(msg);
        this.cause = cause;
    }
}