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1   /*
2    * $Id: ExceptionReader.java 19191 2010-08-25 21:05:23Z tcarlson $
3    * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4    * Copyright (c) MuleSoft, Inc.  All rights reserved.  http://www.mulesoft.com
5    *
6    * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0
7    * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the
8    * LICENSE.txt file.
9    */
10  
11  package org.mule.api.config;
12  
13  import java.util.Map;
14  
15  /**
16   * Provides a strategy interface for reading information from an exception in a
17   * consistent way. For example JMS 1.0.2b uses linkedExceptions rather that 'cause'
18   * and SQLExceptions hold additional information that can be extracted using this
19   * interface.
20   */
21  public interface ExceptionReader
22  {
23  
24      String getMessage(Throwable t);
25  
26      Throwable getCause(Throwable t);
27  
28      Class<?> getExceptionType();
29  
30      /**
31       * Returns a map of the non-stanard information stored on the exception
32       * 
33       * @param t the exception to extract the information from
34       * @return a map of the non-stanard information stored on the exception
35       */
36      Map<?, ?> getInfo(Throwable t);
37  
38  }