[cups] programmatically obtain connection

Boncek, John jboncek at hunter.com
Tue May 24 07:58:23 PDT 2016


After considerable searching, I find no references to cupsGetDevices.  Can you point me to
the documentation?  I also searched for cupsGetDevice and cupsGetDev.  The CUPS book
doesn't seem to know it either.

-----Original Message-----
From: cups-bounces at cups.org [mailto:cups-bounces at cups.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweet
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 6:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [cups] programmatically obtain connection

You want to look at the cupsGetDevices API.

> On May 20, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Boncek, John <jboncek at hunter.com> wrote:
> 
> Using CUPS 1.7.2 under Ubuntu 14.04 at http://localhost:631, the 
> Printers page shows a list of available printers.  When you click one, 
> it shows various information about that printer, including 
> "Connection", with values like "socket:10.2..." or "usb://HP/..."  How 
> can I programmatically get that information for a printer?  I've 
> looked thru the CUPS API but can't see any way to do so.  I know how 
> to get a list of destinations but that doesn't contain this 
> information as far as I can see.  Thanks for any help you can provide.  
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