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1# PyKota
2#
3# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS
4#
5# (c) 2003 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9# (at your option) any later version.
10#
11# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14# GNU General Public License for more details.
15#
16# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
19#
20# $Id$
21#
22# $Log$
23# Revision 1.6  2003/03/29 13:45:27  jalet
24# GPL paragraphs were incorrectly (from memory) copied into the sources.
25# Two README files were added.
26# Upgrade script for PostgreSQL pre 1.01 schema was added.
27#
28# Revision 1.5  2003/02/10 00:42:17  jalet
29# External requester should be ok (untested)
30# New syntax for configuration file wrt requesters
31#
32# Revision 1.4  2003/02/09 13:05:43  jalet
33# Internationalization continues...
34#
35# Revision 1.3  2003/02/05 22:10:29  jalet
36# Typos
37#
38# Revision 1.2  2003/02/05 22:02:22  jalet
39# __import__ statement didn't work as expected
40#
41# Revision 1.1  2003/02/05 21:28:17  jalet
42# Initial import into CVS
43#
44#
45#
46
47class PyKotaRequesterError(Exception):
48    """An exception for Requester related stuff."""
49    def __init__(self, message = ""):
50        self.message = message
51        Exception.__init__(self, message)
52    def __repr__(self):
53        return self.message
54    __str__ = __repr__
55   
56def openRequester(config, printername) :
57    """Returns a connection handle to the appropriate requester."""
58    (backend, args) = config.getRequesterBackend(printername)
59    try :
60        if not backend.isalpha() :
61            # don't trust user input
62            raise ImportError
63        exec "from pykota.requesters import %s as requesterbackend" % backend.lower()   
64    except ImportError :
65        raise PyKotaRequesterError, _("Unsupported requester backend %s") % backend
66    else :   
67        return getattr(requesterbackend, "Requester")(config, printername, args)
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