/*
 * @(#)FileExistsException.java    1.0  13 February 2001
 *
 * Copyright 2004
 * College of Computer and Information Science
 * Northeastern University
 * Boston, MA  02115
 *
 * The Java Power Tools software may be used for educational
 * purposes as long as this copyright notice is retained intact
 * at the top of all source files.
 *
 * To discuss possible commercial use of this software, 
 * contact Richard Rasala at Northeastern University, 
 * College of Computer and Information Science,
 * 617-373-2462 or rasala@ccs.neu.edu.
 *
 * The Java Power Tools software has been designed and built
 * in collaboration with Viera Proulx and Jeff Raab.
 *
 * Should this software be modified, the words "Modified from 
 * Original" must be included as a comment below this notice.
 *
 * All publication rights are retained.  This software or its 
 * documentation may not be published in any media either
 * in whole or in part without explicit permission.
 *
 * This software was created with support from Northeastern 
 * University and from NSF grant DUE-9950829.
 */

package edu.neu.ccs.util;

import java.io.*;

/**
 * <P>Exception thrown to denote the existence of a file 
 * that could be inadvertently overwritten
 * if no notification were made of its presence.</P>
 *
 * @author  Jeff Raab
 * @version 2.2
 * @since   1.0
 * @see FileUtilities
 */
public class FileExistsException extends IOException {

    /** The file that caused the exception to be thrown. */
    protected File f = null;

    /**
     * Constructs an exception generated because of
     * the existence of the given file.
     *
     * @param file the file that caused the exception
     *      to be thrown
     */
    public FileExistsException(File file) {
        super();
        f = file;
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns the file that caused this exception to be thrown.
     */
    public File getFile() {
        return f;
    }
}