001    /*******************************************************************************
002     * Portions created by Sebastian Thomschke are copyright (c) 2005-2011 Sebastian
003     * Thomschke.
004     * 
005     * All Rights Reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
006     * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
007     * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
008     * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
009     * 
010     * Contributors:
011     *     Sebastian Thomschke - initial implementation.
012     *******************************************************************************/
013    package net.sf.oval.exception;
014    
015    
016    /**
017     * An exception translater for all exception thrown by the guard
018     * during runtime when performing constraint validations on guarded objects.
019     * 
020     * @author Sebastian Thomschke
021     */
022    public interface ExceptionTranslator
023    {
024            /**
025             * If this method returns null, the original exception is thrown.
026             * 
027             * @param ex
028             * @return the exception to throw
029             */
030            RuntimeException translateException(OValException ex);
031    }