/*

 *   SONEWS News Server

 *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors

 *

 *   This program 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

 *   (at your option) 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 org.sonews.util;

import java.util.Date;

import org.sonews.config.Config;

/**

 * Provides logging and debugging methods.

 * @author Christian Lins

 * @since sonews/0.5.0

 */

public class Log

{

  public static boolean isDebug()

  {

    // We must use FileConfig here otherwise we come

    // into hell's kittchen when using the Logger within the

    // Database class.

    return Config.inst().get(Config.DEBUG, false);

  }

  /**

   * Writes the given message to the debug output.

   * @param msg A String message or an object.

   * @param If true this message is only shown if debug mode is enabled.

   */

  public static void msg(final Object msg, boolean debug)

  {

    if(isDebug() || !debug)

    {

      synchronized(System.out)

      {

        System.out.print(new Date().toString());

        System.out.print(": ");

        System.out.println(msg);

        System.out.flush();

      }

    }

  }

}