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+/**
+ *  Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud.com, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ * 
+ * This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
+ * 
+ * It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ * 
+ */
+package com.cloud.api.response;
+
+import com.cloud.serializer.Param;
+import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;
+
+public class ExceptionResponse extends BaseResponse {
+    @SerializedName("errorcode") @Param(description="numeric code associated with this error")
+    private Integer errorCode;
+
+    @SerializedName("errortext") @Param(description="the text associated with this error")
+    private String errorText;
+
+    public Integer getErrorCode() {
+        return errorCode;
+    }
+
+    public void setErrorCode(Integer errorCode) {
+        this.errorCode = errorCode;
+    }
+
+    public String getErrorText() {
+        return errorText;
+    }
+
+    public void setErrorText(String errorText) {
+        this.errorText = errorText;
+    }
+}