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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You 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
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.log4j.config;
+
+/**
+ * Thrown when an error is encountered whilst attempting to set a property
+ * using the {@link PropertySetter} utility class.
+ *
+ * @author Anders Kristensen
+ * @since 1.1
+ */
+public class PropertySetterException extends Exception {
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = -1352613734254235861L;
+ protected Throwable rootCause;
+
+ public
+ PropertySetterException(String msg) {
+ super(msg);
+ }
+
+ public
+ PropertySetterException(Throwable rootCause)
+ {
+ super();
+ this.rootCause = rootCause;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ Returns descriptive text on the cause of this exception.
+ */
+ public
+ String getMessage() {
+ String msg = super.getMessage();
+ if (msg == null && rootCause != null) {
+ msg = rootCause.getMessage();
+ }
+ return msg;
+ }
+}