From 8b0f212ffa24fe18fa3671a890c57fe928b9df70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Leslie Porter <brett@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:08:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix a crappy error message. It said that a POM referenced
 itself, when the problem was that the expression referenced itself.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk@475132 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../project/interpolation/RegexBasedModelInterpolator.java    | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/interpolation/RegexBasedModelInterpolator.java b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/interpolation/RegexBasedModelInterpolator.java
index 8b79ecf377..6a790e11db 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/interpolation/RegexBasedModelInterpolator.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/interpolation/RegexBasedModelInterpolator.java
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ public class RegexBasedModelInterpolator
             // if the expression refers to itself, skip it.
             if ( String.valueOf( value ).indexOf( wholeExpr ) > -1 )
             {
-                throw new ModelInterpolationException( wholeExpr, model.getId() + " references itself." );
+                throw new ModelInterpolationException( wholeExpr, "Expression value '" + value + "' references itself in '" + model.getId() + "'." );
             }
 
             if ( value != null )
@@ -192,4 +192,4 @@ public class RegexBasedModelInterpolator
         return result;
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}