/*
 * Copyright 2005-2008 Les Hazlewood
 *
 * 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
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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 */
package org.jsecurity.authc;

/**
 * Thrown during the authentication process when the system determines the submitted credential(s)
 * has expired and will not allow login.
 *
 * <p>This is most often used to alert a user that their credentials (e.g. password or
 * cryptography key) has expired and they should change the value.  In such systems, the component
 * invoking the authentication might catch this exception and redirect the user to an appropriate
 * view to allow them to update their password or other credentials mechanism.
 *
 * @since 0.1
 * @author Les Hazlewood
 */
public class ExpiredCredentialsException extends CredentialsException {

    /**
     * Creates a new ExpiredCredentialsException.
     */
    public ExpiredCredentialsException() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new ExpiredCredentialsException.
     * @param message the reason for the exception
     */
    public ExpiredCredentialsException( String message ) {
        super( message );
    }

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

    /**
     * Constructs a new ExpiredCredentialsException.
     * @param message the reason for the exception
     * @param cause the underlying Throwable that caused this exception to be thrown.
     */
    public ExpiredCredentialsException( String message, Throwable cause ) {
        super( message, cause );
    }
}