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+package DBIx::Class::Exception;
+
+use strict;
+use vars qw[@ISA $DBIC_EXCEPTION_CLASS];
+use UNIVERSAL::require;
+
+BEGIN {
+ push( @ISA, $DBIC_EXCEPTION_CLASS || 'DBIx::Class::Exception::Base' );
+}
+
+package DBIx::Class::Exception::Base;
+
+use strict;
+use Carp ();
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+DBIx::Class::Exception - DBIC Exception Class
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ DBIx::Class::Exception->throw( qq/Fatal exception/ );
+
+See also L<DBIx::Class>.
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This is a generic Exception class for DBIx::Class. You can easily
+replace this with any mechanism implementing 'throw' by setting
+$DBix::Class::Exception::DBIC_EXCEPTION_CLASS
+
+=head1 METHODS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item throw( $message )
+
+=item throw( message => $message )
+
+=item throw( error => $error )
+
+Throws a fatal exception.
+
+=cut
+
+sub throw {
+ my $class = shift;
+ my %params = @_ == 1 ? ( error => $_[0] ) : @_;
+
+ my $message = $params{message} || $params{error} || $! || '';
+
+ local $Carp::CarpLevel = 1;
+
+ Carp::croak($message);
+}
+
+=back
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org>
+
+=head1 THANKS
+
+Thanks to the L<Catalyst> framework, where this module was borrowed
+from.
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+=cut
+
+1;