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package java.lang;

/**
 * Thrown to indicate that an assertion has failed.
 *
 * <p>The seven one-argument public constructors provided by this
 * class ensure that the assertion error returned by the invocation:
 * <pre>
 *     new AssertionError(<i>expression</i>)
 * </pre>
 * has as its detail message the <i>string conversion</i> of
 * <i>expression</i> (as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>),
 * regardless of the type of <i>expression</i>.
 *
 * @since   1.4
 */
public class AssertionError extends Error {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -5013299493970297370L;

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with no detail message.
	 */
	public AssertionError() {
	}

	/**
	 * This internal constructor does no processing on its string argument,
	 * even if it is a null reference.  The public constructors will
	 * never call this constructor with a null argument.
	 */
	private AssertionError(String detailMessage) {
		super(detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified object, which is converted to a string as
	 * defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *<p>
	 * If the specified object is an instance of {@code Throwable}, it
	 * becomes the <i>cause</i> of the newly constructed assertion error.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 * @see   Throwable#getCause()
	 */
	public AssertionError(Object detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
		if (detailMessage instanceof Throwable)
			initCause((Throwable) detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified <code>boolean</code>, which is converted to
	 * a string as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 */
	public AssertionError(boolean detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified <code>char</code>, which is converted to a
	 * string as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 */
	public AssertionError(char detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified <code>int</code>, which is converted to a
	 * string as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 */
	public AssertionError(int detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified <code>long</code>, which is converted to a
	 * string as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 */
	public AssertionError(long detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified <code>float</code>, which is converted to a
	 * string as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 */
	public AssertionError(float detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs an AssertionError with its detail message derived
	 * from the specified <code>double</code>, which is converted to a
	 * string as defined in section 15.18.1.1 of
	 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
	 *
	 * @param detailMessage value to be used in constructing detail message
	 */
	public AssertionError(double detailMessage) {
		this("" +  detailMessage);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructs a new {@code AssertionError} with the specified
	 * detail message and cause.
	 *
	 * <p>Note that the detail message associated with
	 * {@code cause} is <i>not</i> automatically incorporated in
	 * this error's detail message.
	 *
	 * @param  message the detail message, may be {@code null}
	 * @param  cause the cause, may be {@code null}
	 *
	 * @since 1.7
	 */
	public AssertionError(String message, Throwable cause) {
		super(message, cause);
	}
}
