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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed 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 com.google.gson;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is raised if there is a serious issue that occurs during parsing of a Json
+ * string. One of the main usages for this class is for the Gson infrastructure. If the incoming
+ * Json is bad/malicious, an instance of this exception is raised.
+ *
+ * <p>This exception is a {@link RuntimeException} because it is exposed to the client. Using a
+ * {@link RuntimeException} avoids bad coding practices on the client side where they catch the
+ * exception and do nothing. It is often the case that you want to blow up if there is a parsing
+ * error (i.e. often clients do not know how to recover from a {@link JsonParseException}.</p>
+ *
+ * @author Inderjeet Singh
+ * @author Joel Leitch
+ */
+public class JsonParseException extends RuntimeException {
+ static final long serialVersionUID = -4086729973971783390L;
+
+ /**
+ * Creates exception with the specified message. If you are wrapping another exception, consider
+ * using {@link #JsonParseException(String, Throwable)} instead.
+ *
+ * @param msg error message describing a possible cause of this exception.
+ */
+ public JsonParseException(String msg) {
+ super(msg);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Creates exception with the specified message and cause.
+ *
+ * @param msg error message describing what happened.
+ * @param cause root exception that caused this exception to be thrown.
+ */
+ public JsonParseException(String msg, Throwable cause) {
+ super(msg, cause);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Creates exception with the specified cause. Consider using
+ * {@link #JsonParseException(String, Throwable)} instead if you can describe what happened.
+ *
+ * @param cause root exception that caused this exception to be thrown.
+ */
+ public JsonParseException(Throwable cause) {
+ super(cause);
+ }
+}