/**
 * AmbientTalk/2 Project
 * XReflectionFailure.java created on Jul 13, 2006 at 8:32:03 PM
 * (c) Programming Technology Lab, 2006 - 2007
 * Authors: Tom Van Cutsem & Stijn Mostinckx
 * 
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package edu.vub.at.exceptions;

import edu.vub.at.objects.ATStripe;
import edu.vub.at.objects.coercion.NativeStripes;

/**
 * An instance of the class XReflectionFailure is thrown when something goes wrong
 * when dealing with mirror or mirage operations. By extension this also covers 
 * failures when symbiotically accessing Java objects.
 * 
 * @author smostinc
 */
public class XReflectionFailure extends InterpreterException {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 4082945147643295718L;

	public XReflectionFailure() {
		super();
	}

	public XReflectionFailure(String message, Throwable cause) {
		super(message, cause);
	}

	public XReflectionFailure(String message) {
		super(message);
	}

	public XReflectionFailure(Throwable cause) {
		super(cause);
	}
	
	public String getMessage() {
		if (getCause() != null) {
			return super.getMessage() + ": " + getCause().getMessage();
		} else {
		    return super.getMessage();
		}
	}
	
	public ATStripe getStripeType() {
		return NativeStripes._REFLECTIONFAILURE_;
	}

}