Returns the root cause of an exception
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import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.reflect.Member;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.net.URL;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
/**
* Contains various unorganized static utility methods used across Cayenne.
*
* @author Andrei Adamchik
*/
public class Util {
/**
* Looks up and returns the root cause of an exception. If none is found, returns
* supplied Throwable object unchanged. If root is found, recursively "unwraps" it,
* and returns the result to the user.
*/
public static Throwable unwindException(Throwable th) {
if (th instanceof SAXException) {
SAXException sax = (SAXException) th;
if (sax.getException() != null) {
return unwindException(sax.getException());
}
}
else if (th instanceof SQLException) {
SQLException sql = (SQLException) th;
if (sql.getNextException() != null) {
return unwindException(sql.getNextException());
}
}
else if (th.getCause() != null) {
return unwindException(th.getCause());
}
return th;
}
}
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