[cups] programmatically obtain connection

[Michael Sweet]

John,

See:

    https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.1/api-httpipp.html#cupsGetDevices

(this will be moving to a new administrative programming manual in 2.2)

The cupsGetDevices() API came in CUPS 1.4, long after the CUPS book which was written mostly in 2000 (CUPS 1.1.x/leading up to 1.2...)


> On May 24, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Boncek, John <jboncek at hunter.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> To: The CUPS user discussion list.
> 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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