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package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities.optionhandling;

/*
 This file is part of ELKI:
 Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures

 Copyright (C) 2015
 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
 Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme
 ELKI Development Team

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities.optionhandling.parameters.Parameter;

/**
 * Exception when a required parameter was not given.
 * 
 * @author Erich Schubert
 * @since 0.2
 */
public class UnspecifiedParameterException extends WrongParameterValueException {
  /**
   * Serial UID
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -7142809547201980898L;

  /**
   * Parameter that was missing.
   */
  private String parameter;

  /**
   * Constructor with missing Parameter
   * 
   * @param parameter Missing parameter
   */
  public UnspecifiedParameterException(Parameter<?> parameter) {
    super("No value given for parameter \"" + parameter.getName() + "\":\n" + "Expected: " + parameter.getFullDescription());
    this.parameter = parameter.getName();
  }

  /**
   * Get the parameter name that was missing.
   * 
   * @return Parameter name
   */
  public String getParameterName() {
    return parameter;
  }
}