From d7a5c761704b271a478b05c97e709260b5e68ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:07:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Removed the support for exceptions with a field named
 'detail'. It's been there since the beginning, but does not seem like a very
 important use case. LANG-491

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/lang/trunk@895131 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../lang3/exception/ExceptionUtils.java       | 31 +------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/exception/ExceptionUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/exception/ExceptionUtils.java
index 58f9d227a..0da128475 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/exception/ExceptionUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/exception/ExceptionUtils.java
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ public static Throwable getCause(Throwable throwable, String[] methodNames) {
             }
         }
 
-        return getCauseUsingFieldName(throwable, "detail");
+        return null;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -223,35 +223,6 @@ private static Throwable getCauseUsingMethodName(Throwable throwable, String met
         return null;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * <p>Finds a <code>Throwable</code> by field name.</p>
-     *
-     * @param throwable  the exception to examine
-     * @param fieldName  the name of the attribute to examine
-     * @return the wrapped exception, or <code>null</code> if not found
-     */
-    private static Throwable getCauseUsingFieldName(Throwable throwable, String fieldName) {
-        Field field = null;
-        try {
-            field = throwable.getClass().getField(fieldName);
-        } catch (NoSuchFieldException ignored) {
-            // exception ignored
-        } catch (SecurityException ignored) {
-            // exception ignored
-        }
-
-        if (field != null && Throwable.class.isAssignableFrom(field.getType())) {
-            try {
-                return (Throwable) field.get(throwable);
-            } catch (IllegalAccessException ignored) {
-                // exception ignored
-            } catch (IllegalArgumentException ignored) {
-                // exception ignored
-            }
-        }
-        return null;
-    }
-
     //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
     /**
      * <p>Counts the number of <code>Throwable</code> objects in the