Adding a printer through cups library

[Krishnanudhaya]

Thank you very much for the response on [Unable to add the ipp network printer to cup server #514]
(#514)
and pointing out towards the https://openprinting.github.io/cups/doc/spec-ipp.html#CUPS_ADD_MODIFY_PRINTER.

We tried with the below printing library for CUPS, where we couldn’t find the Add Printer method.
i) Java library - https://github.com/harwey/cups4j
ii) Kotlin Library - https://github.com/gmuth/ipp-client-kotlin

Could you suggest any other library for adding printers? Or is it something we should develop a method for adding a printer? Please advise a better way to handle this. Our objective is adding a printer from our own web UI through a Library/SDK/API without using cups web UI.

Below are the available methods in Java library - https://github.com/harwey/cups4j

https://github.com/harwey/cups4j/blob/master/src/main/java/org/cups4j/CupsClient.java

getPrinters()
getDefaultPrinter()
getPrintersWithoutDefault()
getPrinter(URL printerURL)
getPrinter(String printerName)
getPrinterOnCurrentHost(String printerURL)
getJobAttributes(int jobID)
getJobAttributes(String userName, int jobID)
getJobAttributes(String hostname, String userName, int jobID)
getJobs(CupsPrinter printer, WhichJobsEnum whichJobs, String userName, boolean myJobs)
cancelJob(CupsPrinter printer, int jobID)
holdJob(CupsPrinter printer, int jobID)
releaseJob(CupsPrinter printer, int jobID)
moveJob(int jobID, String userName, CupsPrinter currentPrinter, CupsPrinter targetPrinter)

Below are the available methods in Kotlin Library - https://github.com/gmuth/ipp-client-kotlin

https://github.com/gmuth/ipp-client-kotlin/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/de/gmuth/ipp/client/CupsClient.kt

getPrinters()
getPrinter(name: String)
getDefault()

https://github.com/gmuth/ipp-client-kotlin/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/de/gmuth/ipp/client/IppPrinter.kt

Identify-Printer
Printer administration
Get-Printer-Attributes
Validate-Job
Print-Job (with subscription support)
Print-URI
Create-Job
Get-Job-Attributes (as IppJob)
Get-Jobs (as List)
Create-Printer-Subscription
Get-Subscription-Attributes (as IppSubscription)
Get-Subscriptions (as List)

Thanks,

[zdohnal]

Hi @Krishnanudhaya ,

I know about pycups python module, GTK and QT implement wrapper layer as well.