From 7a76e13459e7bebbde5d529839699c8f31258cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ebanks <ebanks@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:59:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Better explanation in the exception being thrown.

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@2291 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 .../sting/utils/cmdLine/ArgumentTypeDescriptor.java             | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/cmdLine/ArgumentTypeDescriptor.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/cmdLine/ArgumentTypeDescriptor.java
index b2af39842..26153f3ae 100644
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/cmdLine/ArgumentTypeDescriptor.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/cmdLine/ArgumentTypeDescriptor.java
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class SimpleArgumentTypeDescriptor extends ArgumentTypeDescriptor {
         } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
             throw new StingException("constructFromString:IllegalAccessException: Failed conversion " + e.getMessage());
         } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
-            throw new StingException("constructFromString:InvocationTargetException: Failed conversion " + e.getMessage());
+            throw new StingException("constructFromString:InvocationTargetException: Failed conversion - this is most likely caused by using an incorrect data type (e.g. a double when an int is required)");
         } catch (InstantiationException e) {
             throw new StingException("constructFromString:InstantiationException: Failed conversion " + e.getMessage());
         }