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/**
 * Copyright (c) 2011, University of Konstanz, Distributed Systems Group
 * All rights reserved.
 * 
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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package org.treetank.exception;

/**
 * Exception to hold all relevant failures upcoming from Treetank.
 * 
 * @author Sebastian Graf, University of Konstanz
 * 
 */
public abstract class TTException extends Exception {

    /** General ID. */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    /**
     * Constructor to encapsulate parsing.
     * 
     * @param mExc
     *            to encapsulate
     */
    public TTException(final Exception mExc) {
        super(mExc);
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     * 
     * @param message
     *            , convinience for super-constructor
     */
    private TTException(final StringBuilder message) {
        super(message.toString());
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     * 
     * @param message
     *            message as string, they are concatenated with spaces in
     *            between
     */
    public TTException(final String... message) {
        this(concat(message));
    }

    /**
     * Util method to provide StringBuilder functionality.
     * 
     * @param message
     *            to be concatenated
     * @return the StringBuilder for the combined string
     */
    public static StringBuilder concat(final String... message) {
        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        for (final String mess : message) {
            builder.append(mess);
            builder.append(" ");
        }
        return builder;
    }

}