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+package Catalyst::Exception::Basic;
+
+use MooseX::Role::WithOverloading;
+use Carp;
+use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';
+
+with 'Catalyst::Exception::Interface';
+
+has message => (
+ is => 'ro',
+ isa => 'Str',
+ default => sub { $! || '' },
+);
+
+sub as_string {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ return $self->message;
+}
+
+around BUILDARGS => sub {
+ my ($next, $class, @args) = @_;
+ if (@args == 1 && !ref $args[0]) {
+ @args = (message => $args[0]);
+ }
+
+ my $args = $class->$next(@args);
+ $args->{message} ||= $args->{error}
+ if exists $args->{error};
+
+ return $args;
+};
+
+sub throw {
+ my $class = shift;
+ my $error = $class->new(@_);
+ local $Carp::CarpLevel = 1;
+ croak $error;
+}
+
+sub rethrow {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ croak $self;
+}
+
+1;
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Catalyst::Exception::Basic - Basic Catalyst Exception Role
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ package My::Exception;
+ use Moose;
+ use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';
+
+ with 'Catalyst::Exception::Basic';
+
+ # Elsewhere..
+ My::Exception->throw( qq/Fatal exception/ );
+
+See also L<Catalyst> and L<Catalyst::Exception>.
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This is the basic Catalyst Exception role which implements all of
+L<Catalyst::Exception::Interface>.
+
+=head1 ATTRIBUTES
+
+=head2 message
+
+Holds the exception message.
+
+=head1 METHODS
+
+=head2 as_string
+
+Stringifies the exception's message attribute.
+Called when the object is stringified by overloading.
+
+=head2 throw( $message )
+
+=head2 throw( message => $message )
+
+=head2 throw( error => $error )
+
+Throws a fatal exception.
+
+=head2 rethrow( $exception )
+
+Rethrows a caught exception.
+
+=head2 meta
+
+Provided by Moose
+
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+=cut