Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *  Copyright: 215 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Jing Tao

 *

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

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 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

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 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat;

import org.dataone.configuration.Settings;

/**

 * A checker to determine if the Metacat is in the read-only mode by checking

 * the property of database.readOnly.

 * @author tao

 *

 */

public class ReadOnlyChecker {

    /**

     * Default constructor

     */

    public ReadOnlyChecker() {

    }

    /**

     * Check if the mode is the read-only.

     * @return true if the value of "application.readOnlyMode" is not null and is equal, ignoring case, to the string true.

     */

    public boolean isReadOnly() {

        //we haven't checked, read

        String readOnlyStr =Settings.getConfiguration().getString("application.readOnlyMode");

        boolean readOnly = Boolean.parseBoolean(readOnlyStr);//this method return true when readOnlyStr is "true".

        return readOnly;

    }

}