How to detect confluence edit mode in code

[rambabu patina]

I want to detect the confluence page mode whether EDIT or VIEW in my confluence macro plugin code. Help me to find out the way. Thanks.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This sounds like a very broken requirement.  I can't think of a single useful reason to do this, and it's useless anyway.

When a macro is in "view", your code provides the users with functions.  When a macro is in edit mode, it's actually just a display for capturing the parameters, there's no code running when it's on the page.  It will run in the preview, but what's the point in doing that?

[rambabu patina]

Thanks Nic for your quick response.

I am trying to develop a macro for confluence. It has one parameter (i.e any non-admin group).

When user selects the group he should be able to join to the selected group.

So this functionality I want to provide through macro insert/preview while editing the page and not on the page view. If I can detect the page edit then I will use the condition in macro execute() method to execute action on page edit only.

[Michael Eskin]

Gliffy seems to be able to render previews in edit mode without image markup in their macro body. Any idea how they accomplish this? Their macro rich-text bodies are empty if you examine the page storage format...