Best Practice to check readOnly elements

[Denis]

Hi

we are using the Eclipse Oxygen Author in Version 15.2

I want to drag an element. If I move the cursor over an readOnly element, there will be no DND.DROP_NONE symbol. So I implemented this:

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        AuthorViewToModelInfo authorViewToModelInfo = getAuthorViewToModelInfo(event);

        AuthorNode node = authorViewToModelInfo.getAuthorNode();

        boolean editable = authorAccess.getDocumentController()

                .isEditable(node);

        if (!editable) {

            event.detail = DND.DROP_NONE;

        }

Is there a better way to figure out, if the element is read-only?

Best regards,
Denis

[Radu]

Hi Denis,

From where exactly do you drag that element? From a custom view? Did you already have a custom drop handler for it?

Basically the isEditable API method checks that:

* Test if a node is editable or not. A node is not editable for one of the following cases:
* <ul>
* <li>the CSS property 'editable' is to 'false';</li>
* <li>the node is entirely included into a DELETED change marker.</li>
* <ul>

The API also convers content references or xi:included sections (basically content which comes from another XML file).
Is it insufficient for your needs?

Regards,
Radu