/*

  *   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();

       }

     }

   }

 }