Merging the changes from the override-refactor branch. This is a significant rewrite of the parser, but it has little affect on the rest of the code tree.

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@1726 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

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diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/errors.rb b/lib/puppet/util/errors.rb
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+# Some helper methods for throwing errors.
+module Puppet::Util::Errors
+    # Throw a dev error.
+    def devfail(msg)
+        self.fail(Puppet::DevError, msg)
+    end
+
+    # Add line and file info if available and appropriate.
+    def adderrorcontext(error, other = nil)
+        error.line ||= self.line if self.respond_to?(:line) and self.line
+        error.file ||= self.file if self.respond_to?(:file) and self.file
+
+        if other and other.respond_to?(:backtrace)
+            error.set_backtrace other.backtrace
+        end
+
+        return error
+    end
+
+    # Wrap a call in such a way that we always throw the right exception and keep
+    # as much context as possible.
+    def exceptwrap(options = {})
+        options[:type] ||= Puppet::DevError
+        begin
+            retval = yield
+        rescue Puppet::Error => detail
+            raise adderrorcontext(detail)
+        rescue => detail
+            message = options[:message] || "%s failed with error %s: %s" %
+                    [self.class, detail.class, detail.to_s]
+
+            error = options[:type].new(message)
+            # We can't use self.fail here because it always expects strings,
+            # not exceptions.
+            raise adderrorcontext(error, detail)
+        end
+
+        return retval
+    end
+
+    # Throw an error, defaulting to a Puppet::Error.
+    def fail(*args)
+        if args[0].is_a?(Class)
+            type = args.shift
+        else
+            type = Puppet::Error
+        end
+
+        error = adderrorcontext(type.new(args.join(" ")))
+
+        raise error
+    end
+end
+
+# $Id$