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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.commons.io;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Subclasses IOException with the {@link Throwable} constructors missing before Java 6. If you are using Java 6,
+ * consider this class deprecated and use {@link IOException}.
+ * 
+ * @author <a href="http://commons.apache.org/io/">Apache Commons IO</a>
+ * @version $Id$
+ * @since Commons IO 1.4
+ */
+public class IOExceptionWithCause extends IOException {
+
+    /**
+     * Defines the serial version UID.
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new instance with the given message and cause.
+     * <p>
+     * As specified in {@link Throwable}, the message in the given <code>cause</code> is not used in this instance's
+     * message.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @param message
+     *            the message (see {@link #getMessage()})
+     * @param cause
+     *            the cause (see {@link #getCause()}). A <code>null</code> value is allowed.
+     */
+    public IOExceptionWithCause(String message, Throwable cause) {
+        super(message);
+        this.initCause(cause);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new instance with the given cause.
+     * <p>
+     * The message is set to <code>cause==null ? null : cause.toString()</code>, which by default contains the class
+     * and message of <code>cause</code>. This constructor is useful for call sites that just wrap another throwable.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @param cause
+     *            the cause (see {@link #getCause()}). A <code>null</code> value is allowed.
+     */
+    public IOExceptionWithCause(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause == null ? null : cause.toString());
+        this.initCause(cause);
+    }
+
+}