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Preliminary support for LPRng added BUT STILL UNTESTED.

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1# PyKota
2#
3# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
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 1.7  2003/04/23 22:13:57  jalet
24# Preliminary support for LPRng added BUT STILL UNTESTED.
25#
26# Revision 1.6  2003/03/29 13:45:27  jalet
27# GPL paragraphs were incorrectly (from memory) copied into the sources.
28# Two README files were added.
29# Upgrade script for PostgreSQL pre 1.01 schema was added.
30#
31# Revision 1.5  2003/02/10 00:42:17  jalet
32# External requester should be ok (untested)
33# New syntax for configuration file wrt requesters
34#
35# Revision 1.4  2003/02/09 13:05:43  jalet
36# Internationalization continues...
37#
38# Revision 1.3  2003/02/05 22:10:29  jalet
39# Typos
40#
41# Revision 1.2  2003/02/05 22:02:22  jalet
42# __import__ statement didn't work as expected
43#
44# Revision 1.1  2003/02/05 21:28:17  jalet
45# Initial import into CVS
46#
47#
48#
49
50class PyKotaRequesterError(Exception):
51    """An exception for Requester related stuff."""
52    def __init__(self, message = ""):
53        self.message = message
54        Exception.__init__(self, message)
55    def __repr__(self):
56        return self.message
57    __str__ = __repr__
58   
59def openRequester(config, printername) :
60    """Returns a connection handle to the appropriate requester."""
61    (backend, args) = config.getRequesterBackend(printername)
62    try :
63        if not backend.isalpha() :
64            # don't trust user input
65            raise ImportError
66        exec "from pykota.requesters import %s as requesterbackend" % backend.lower()   
67    except ImportError :
68        raise PyKotaRequesterError, _("Unsupported requester backend %s") % backend
69    else :   
70        return getattr(requesterbackend, "Requester")(config, printername, args)
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