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A light weight and high performance Java caching library. Android and Java 6 compatible. This artifact contains the official API of cache2k.

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package org.cache2k.integration;

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/**
 * In read through mode exceptions are cached. Every time an entry is requested from the
 * cache a new exception is generated that wraps the original loader exception in a
 * {@link CacheLoaderException}. This behavior can be modified by registering a custom
 * exception propagator.
 *
 * Exceptions should not be thrown directly but wrapped. Using this customization it
 * is possible to change the exception type or the message according to the information
 * available.
 *
 * @author Jens Wilke
 */
public interface ExceptionPropagator {

  /**
   * Generate runtime exception to throw. The original exception is passed in as information.
   * Every returned exception should be filled with a stack trace based on the current
   * method call. This is done by the exception constructor automatically.
   *
   * @param exceptionInformation information when the original exception occurred.
   */
  RuntimeException propagateException(K key, ExceptionInformation exceptionInformation);

}