/**
 * AmbientTalk/2 Project
 * XIOProblem.java created on 6-sep-2006 at 16:17:42
 * (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.ATTypeTag;
import edu.vub.at.objects.coercion.NativeTypeTags;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * The class XIOProblem is a wrapper class for Java IOExceptions. It is thrown when errors 
 * occur during the serialisation of ATObjects to Packets (and the inverse), to schedule 
 * messages for transmission to another actor. Another class that raises these exceptions 
 * is NATNamespace to report that it failed to read in a particular file to lazily load a
 * library.
 * 
 * @see edu.vub.at.actors.natives.Packet
 * @see edu.vub.at.objects.natives.NATNamespace
 * 
 * @author tvc
 */
public class XIOProblem extends InterpreterException {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -2356169455943359670L;

	/**
	 * Constructor wrapping an IOExceptions to be reported to the AmbientTalk interpreter.
	 * @param cause the underlying exception to be reported.
	 */
	public XIOProblem(IOException cause) {
		super(cause);
	}

	public String getMessage() {
		return  getCause().getClass() + ": " + getCause().getMessage();
	}

	public ATTypeTag getType() {
		return NativeTypeTags._IOPROBLEM_;
	}
}