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 }