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package org.springframework.dao.support;
import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;
/**
* Interface implemented by Spring integrations with data access technologies
* that throw runtime exceptions, such as JPA, TopLink, JDO and Hibernate.
*
* <p>This allows consistent usage of combined exception translation functionality,
* without forcing a single translator to understand every single possible type
* of exception.
*
* @author Rod Johnson
* @author Juergen Hoeller
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface PersistenceExceptionTranslator {
/**
* Translate the given runtime exception thrown by a persistence framework to a
* corresponding exception from Spring's generic DataAccessException hierarchy,
* if possible.
* <p>Do not translate exceptions that are not understand by this translator:
* for example, if coming from another persistence framework, or resulting
* from user code and unrelated to persistence.
* <p>Of particular importance is the correct translation to
* DataIntegrityViolationException, for example on constraint violation.
* Implementations may use Spring JDBC's sophisticated exception translation
* to provide further information in the event of SQLException as a root cause.
* @param ex a RuntimeException thrown
* @return the corresponding DataAccessException (or <code>null</code> if the
* exception could not be translated, as in this case it may result from
* user code rather than an actual persistence problem)
* @see org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException
* @see org.springframework.jdbc.support.SQLExceptionTranslator
*/
DataAccessException translateExceptionIfPossible(RuntimeException ex);
}
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