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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2014 Sonatype, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Sonatype, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.aether;
+
+/**
+ * The base class for exceptions thrown by the repository system. <em>Note:</em> Unless otherwise noted, instances of
+ * this class and its subclasses will not persist fields carrying extended error information during serialization.
+ */
+public class RepositoryException
+ extends Exception
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new exception with the specified detail message.
+ *
+ * @param message The detail message, may be {@code null}.
+ */
+ public RepositoryException( String message )
+ {
+ super( message );
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new exception with the specified detail message and cause.
+ *
+ * @param message The detail message, may be {@code null}.
+ * @param cause The exception that caused this one, may be {@code null}.
+ */
+ public RepositoryException( String message, Throwable cause )
+ {
+ super( message, cause );
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * @noreference This method is not intended to be used by clients.
+ * @param prefix A message prefix for the cause.
+ * @param cause The error cause.
+ * @return The error message for the cause.
+ */
+ protected static String getMessage( String prefix, Throwable cause )
+ {
+ String msg = "";
+ if ( cause != null )
+ {
+ msg = cause.getMessage();
+ if ( msg == null || msg.length() <= 0 )
+ {
+ msg = cause.getClass().getSimpleName();
+ }
+ msg = prefix + msg;
+ }
+ return msg;
+ }
+
+}