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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2024 PANTHEON.tech, s.r.o. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.restconf.api;
+
+import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
+
+import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.Nullable;
+
+/**
+ * The contents of a {@code error-message} element as defined in
+ * <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8040#page-83">RFC8040 errors grouping</a>. This object can optionally
+ * transport the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-lang-tag">Language Identification</a> as conveyed via,
+ * for example, <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6241#page-17">RFC6241 error-message element</a>.
+ *
+ * @param elementBody the string to be displayed
+ * @param xmlLang optional Language Identification string
+ */
+@NonNullByDefault
+// TODO: consider sharing this class with netconf-api's NetconfDocumentedException
+public record ErrorMessage(String elementBody, @Nullable String xmlLang) {
+ public ErrorMessage {
+ requireNonNull(elementBody);
+ }
+
+ public ErrorMessage(final String elementBody) {
+ this(elementBody, null);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return MoreObjects.toStringHelper(this).omitNullValues()
+ .add("elementBody", elementBody)
+ .add("xmlLang", xmlLang)
+ .toString();
+ }
+}
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