changes to BaseProcessingFail arguments usage

diff --git a/mediagoblin/processing/__init__.py b/mediagoblin/processing/__init__.py
index 112b9d359610011dcd5c2080e15563fb5e550c17..663d1bb5dc54b3a8790168636cef545fc7b533d3 100644 (file)
--- a/mediagoblin/processing/__init__.py
+++ b/mediagoblin/processing/__init__.py
@@ -408,8 +408,11 @@ class BaseProcessingFail(Exception):
         return u"%s:%s" % (
             self.__class__.__module__, self.__class__.__name__)
 
-    def __init__(self, **metadata):
-        self.metadata = metadata or {}
+    def __init__(self, message=None, **metadata):
+        if message is not None:
+            super(BaseProcessingFail, self).__init__(message)
+            metadata['message'] = message
+        self.metadata = metadata
 
 class BadMediaFail(BaseProcessingFail):
     """