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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache 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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * 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.apache.commons.io.filefilter;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * This filter accepts <code>File</code>s that can be written to.
+ * <p>
+ * Example, showing how to print out a list of the
+ * current directory's <i>writable</i> files:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ * File dir = new File(".");
+ * String[] files = dir.list( CanWriteFileFilter.CAN_WRITE );
+ * for ( int i = 0; i &lt; files.length; i++ ) {
+ *     System.out.println(files[i]);
+ * }
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Example, showing how to print out a list of the
+ * current directory's <i>un-writable</i> files:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ * File dir = new File(".");
+ * String[] files = dir.list( CanWriteFileFilter.CANNOT_WRITE );
+ * for ( int i = 0; i &lt; files.length; i++ ) {
+ *     System.out.println(files[i]);
+ * }
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * <b>N.B.</b> For read-only files, use 
+ *    <code>CanReadFileFilter.READ_ONLY</code>.
+ *
+ * @since Commons IO 1.3
+ * @version $Revision: 587916 $
+ */
+public class CanWriteFileFilter extends AbstractFileFilter implements Serializable {
+    
+    /** Singleton instance of <i>writable</i> filter */
+    public static final IOFileFilter CAN_WRITE = new CanWriteFileFilter();
+
+    /** Singleton instance of not <i>writable</i> filter */
+    public static final IOFileFilter CANNOT_WRITE = new NotFileFilter(CAN_WRITE);
+
+    /**
+     * Restrictive consructor.
+     */
+    protected CanWriteFileFilter() {
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Checks to see if the file can be written to.
+     * 
+     * @param file  the File to check
+     * @return <code>true</code> if the file can be
+     *  written to, otherwise <code>false</code>.
+     */
+    public boolean accept(File file) {
+        return file.canWrite();
+    }
+    
+}