Life cycle contracts

The lifecycle contract controls the life cycle flow of functions. For example, using the Pausable contract, we can do the following:

• Pause/unpause the minting of new tokens
• Pause/unpause the transfer of tokens
• Pause/unpause the acceptance of ether

In OpenZeppelin 2.1.1, only one Pausable.sol contract is present in the Chapter09/openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/lifecycle folder. In the future, more contracts may be added.

Pause/unpause functions using Pausable.sol

As we discussed previously, there are some examples of the Pausable contract where it can be used to control the life cycle of a contract. We can use Pausable where administrative functionality is needed.

However, if you use...