AuthenticationException.java

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package org.jasig.cas.authentication.handler;

import org.jasig.cas.authentication.RootCasException;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

/**
 * The most generic type of authentication exception that one can catch if not
 * sure what specific implementation will be thrown. Top of the tree of all
 * other AuthenticationExceptions.
 *
 * @author Scott Battaglia
 * @since 3.0
 */
public abstract class AuthenticationException extends RootCasException {

    /** Serializable ID. */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 3906648604830611762L;

     /** The error type that provides additional info about the nature of the exception cause. **/
    private String type = "error";

    public AuthenticationException(final String code) {
        super(code);
    }

    public AuthenticationException(final String code, final String msg) {
        super(code, msg);
    }

    /**
     * @param type The type of the error message that caused the exception to be thrown. By default,
     * all errors are considered of <code>error</code>.
     * @param code the exception code
     * @param msg the error message
     */
    public AuthenticationException(final String code, final String msg, final String type) {
        this(code, msg);

        Assert.hasLength(type, "The exception type cannot be blank");
        this.type = type;
    }

    /**
     * @param code the exception code
     * @param throwable the exception that originally caused the authentication failure
     */
    public AuthenticationException(final String code, final Throwable throwable) {
        super(code, throwable);
    }

    /**
     * Method to return the error type of this exception.
     *
     * @return the String identifier for the cause of this error.
     */
    public final String getType() {
        return this.type;
    }
}