root / pykota / trunk / pykota / accounter.py @ 973

# PyKota
#
# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
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# (c) 2003 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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# Revision 1.1  2003/04/29 18:37:54  jalet
# Pluggable accounting methods (actually doesn't support external scripts)
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class PyKotaAccounterError(Exception):
    """An exception for Accounter related stuff."""
    def __init__(self, message = ""):
        self.message = message
        Exception.__init__(self, message)
    def __repr__(self):
        return self.message
    __str__ = __repr__
    
class AccounterBase :    
    """A class to account print usage by querying printers."""
    def __init__(self, kotafilter) :
        """Sets instance vars depending on the current printer."""
        self.filter = kotafilter
        
    def doAccounting(self, printerid, userid) :    
        """Does the real accounting."""
        raise PyKotaAccounterError, "Accounter not implemented !"
        
def openAccounter(kotafilter) :
    """Returns a connection handle to the appropriate accounter."""
    backend = kotafilter.config.getAccounterBackend(kotafilter.printername)
    try :
        if not backend.isalpha() :
            # don't trust user input
            raise ImportError
        exec "from pykota.accounters import %s as accounterbackend" % backend.lower()    
    except ImportError :
        raise PyKotaAccounterError, _("Unsupported accounter backend %s") % backend
    else :    
        return getattr(accounterbackend, "Accounter")(kotafilter)