ExcessiveWorkException.java

package org.apache.lucene.limit;


/**
 * Copyright 2005 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
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Thrown when the maximum amount of work for a query has been exceeded. This
 * is derived from IOException instead of just Exception because it may be
 * thrown inside Lucene methods that are only prepared to handle IOExceptions.
 */
public class ExcessiveWorkException extends IOException 
{
  public ExcessiveWorkException() {
    super(
      "The query references too many potential matches. " +
      "Making it more specific would help.");
  }
}