/* AuthenticationException.java Copyright (C) 2003, Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpathis free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpathis distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package javax.security.sasl; /** *

This exception is thrown by a SASL mechanism implementation to indicate * that the SASL exchange has failed due to reasons related to authentication, * such as an invalid identity, passphrase, or key.

* *

Note that the lack of an AuthenticationException does not * mean that the failure was not due to an authentication error. A SASL * mechanism implementation might throw the more general {@link SaslException} * instead of AuthenticationException if it is unable to determine * the nature of the failure, or if does not want to disclose the nature of the * failure, for example, due to security reasons.

*/ public class AuthenticationException extends SaslException { // Constants and variables // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Constructor(s) // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * Constructs a new instance of AuthenticationException. The * root exception and the detailed message are null. */ public AuthenticationException() { super(); } /** * Constructs a new instance of AuthenticationException with a * detailed message. The root exception is null. * * @param detail a possibly null string containing details of * the exception. * @see Throwable#getMessage() */ public AuthenticationException(String detail) { super(detail); } /** * Constructs a new instance of AuthenticationException with a * detailed message and a root exception. * * @param detail a possibly null string containing details of * the exception. * @param ex a possibly null root exception that caused this * exception. * @see Throwable#getMessage() * @see SaslException#getCause() */ public AuthenticationException(String detail, Throwable ex) { super(detail, ex); } // Class methods // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Instance methods // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- }