From 12b8a2a75efcdb5a44d1dd204010bf9f0074f822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Starling <tstarling@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:49:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Restored the function of ApiMain::requestWriteMode(), as per
 the suggestion on CR r50833.

---
 includes/api/ApiMain.php | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/api/ApiMain.php b/includes/api/ApiMain.php
index 6867193d25..b37e3da537 100644
--- a/includes/api/ApiMain.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiMain.php
@@ -203,7 +203,12 @@ class ApiMain extends ApiBase {
 	 * Only kept for backwards compatibility
 	 * @deprecated Use isWriteMode() instead
 	 */
-	public function requestWriteMode() {}
+	public function requestWriteMode() {
+		if (!$this->mEnableWrite)
+			$this->dieUsageMsg(array('writedisabled'));
+		if (wfReadOnly())
+			$this->dieUsageMsg(array('readonlytext'));		
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Set how long the response should be cached.
-- 
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