man1: Copied new formatted/translated command output into the examples.
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
# Copyright (c) 2008 - 2011, Pascal Volk
# See COPYING for distribution information.
"""
VirtualMailManager.ext.postconf
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wrapper class for Postfix's postconf.
Postconf instances can be used to read actual values of configuration
parameters or edit the value of a configuration parameter.
postconf.read(parameter) -> value
postconf.edit(parameter, value)
"""
import re
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from VirtualMailManager.errors import VMMError
from VirtualMailManager.constants import VMM_ERROR
_ = lambda msg: msg
class Postconf(object):
"""Wrapper class for Postfix's postconf."""
__slots__ = ('_bin', '_val')
_parameter_re = re.compile(r'^\w+$')
_variables_re = re.compile(r'\$\b\w+\b')
def __init__(self, postconf_bin):
"""Creates a new Postconf instance.
Argument:
`postconf_bin` : str
absolute path to the Postfix postconf binary.
"""
self._bin = postconf_bin
self._val = ''
def edit(self, parameter, value):
"""Set the `parameter`'s value to `value`.
Arguments:
`parameter` : str
the name of a Postfix configuration parameter
`value` : str
the parameter's new value.
"""
self._check_parameter(parameter)
stderr = Popen((self._bin, '-e', parameter + '=' + str(value)),
stderr=PIPE).communicate()[1]
if stderr:
raise VMMError(stderr.strip(), VMM_ERROR)
def read(self, parameter, expand_vars=True):
"""Returns the parameters value.
If expand_vars is True (default), all variables in the value will be
expanded:
e.g. mydestination: mail.example.com, localhost.example.com, localhost
Otherwise the value may contain one or more variables.
e.g. mydestination: $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
Arguments:
`parameter` : str
the name of a Postfix configuration parameter.
`expand_vars` : bool
indicates if variables should be expanded or not, default True
"""
self._check_parameter(parameter)
self._val = self._read(parameter)
if expand_vars:
self._expand_vars()
return self._val
def _check_parameter(self, parameter):
"""Check that the `parameter` looks like a configuration parameter.
If not, a VMMError will be raised."""
if not self.__class__._parameter_re.match(parameter):
raise VMMError(_(u"The value '%s' does not look like a valid "
u"postfix configuration parameter name.") %
parameter, VMM_ERROR)
def _expand_vars(self):
"""Expand the $variables in self._val to their values."""
while True:
pvars = set(self.__class__._variables_re.findall(self._val))
if not pvars:
break
if len(pvars) > 1:
self._expand_multi_vars(self._read_multi(pvars))
continue
pvars = pvars.pop()
self._val = self._val.replace(pvars, self._read(pvars[1:]))
def _expand_multi_vars(self, old_new):
"""Replace all $vars in self._val with their values."""
for old, new in old_new.iteritems():
self._val = self._val.replace('$' + old, new)
def _read(self, parameter):
"""Ask postconf for the value of a single configuration parameter."""
stdout, stderr = Popen([self._bin, '-h', parameter], stdout=PIPE,
stderr=PIPE).communicate()
if stderr:
raise VMMError(stderr.strip(), VMM_ERROR)
return stdout.strip()
def _read_multi(self, parameters):
"""Ask postconf for multiple configuration parameters. Returns a dict
parameter: value items."""
cmd = [self._bin]
cmd.extend(parameter[1:] for parameter in parameters)
stdout, stderr = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).communicate()
if stderr:
raise VMMError(stderr.strip(), VMM_ERROR)
par_val = {}
for line in stdout.splitlines():
par, val = line.split(' = ')
par_val[par] = val
return par_val
del _