suseapi.presence

class suseapi.presence.Presence(hosts=None)

Parameters:hosts (list) – List of hosts to query

Class for querying (and caching) presence data. The optional hosts list can define which hosts will be used for querying presence database.

get_presence_data(person)

Parameters:person (string) – Username Return type:list Returns:List of absences

Returns list of absences for given person.

is_absent(person, when, threshold=0):

Parameters:

• person (string) – Username
• when (date) – Date
• threshold (integer) – Threshold for presence check

Return type:

bool

Checks whether person is absent on given date.

The optional threshold parameter can specify how long absences to ignore. For example setting it to 1 will ignore one day absences which would otherwise make the method return true.