From 4642a09ae6ad12a9cf9644ce059cadf0779c0b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Makeyev <makeev@corp.mail.ru>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:26:45 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] corrected way to specify cause of AssertionError

---
 .../java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java     | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java b/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java
index 8f4bb3e7..e068460a 100644
--- a/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java
+++ b/json-path-assert/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonassert/impl/JsonAsserterImpl.java
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ public class JsonAsserterImpl implements JsonAsserter {
         try {
             obj = JsonPath.<T>read(jsonObject, path);
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new AssertionError(String.format("Error reading JSON path [%s]: %s", path, e));
+            final AssertionError assertionError = new AssertionError(String.format("Error reading JSON path [%s]", path));
+            assertionError.initCause(e);
+            throw assertionError;
         }
 
         if (!matcher.matches(obj)) {