/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  * limitations under the License.

  */

 package org.kuali.rice.core.impl.config.property;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.config.property.ConfigContext;

 /**

  * This initializes a config object into the ConfigContext

  * as a root config or merges a config object into an already initialized root config  

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  *

  */

 public class ConfigInitializer {

         private ConfigInitializer() {

                 throw new UnsupportedOperationException("do not call");

         }

         /** 

          * inits the root config or merges this config with the root config.

          * 

          * <p>

          * This logic used to happen in the RiceConfigurer but was moved to facilitate the modularity work.

          * </p>

          */

         public static void initialize(org.kuali.rice.core.api.config.property.Config config) {

                 final org.kuali.rice.core.api.config.property.Config rootConfig = ConfigContext.getCurrentContextConfig();

                 if (rootConfig == null) {

                         ConfigContext.init(config);

                 } else {

                         rootConfig.putConfig(config);

                 }

         }

 }