ipptoolfile - ipptool file format
The ipptool(1) program accepts free-form plain text files
that describe one or more IPP requests. Comments start with the
"#" character and continue to the end of the line. Each request is
enclosed by curly braces, for example:
# This is a comment
{
# The name of the test
NAME "Print PDF File"
# The request to send
OPERATION Print-Job
GROUP operation-attributes-tag
ATTR charset attributes-charset utf-8
ATTR language attributes-natural-language en
ATTR uri printer-uri $uri
ATTR name requesting-user-name $user
ATTR mimeMediaType document-format application/pdf
GROUP job-attributes-tag
ATTR collection media-col {
# US Letter plain paper from the "main" tray
MEMBER collection media-size {
MEMBER integer x-dimension 21590
MEMBER integer y-dimension 27940
}
MEMBER integer media-top-margin 423
MEMBER integer media-bottom-margin 423
MEMBER integer media-left-margin 423
MEMBER integer media-right-margin 423
MEMBER keyword media-source "main"
MEMBER keyword media-type "stationery"
}
FILE testfile.pdf
# The response to expect
STATUS successful-ok
EXPECT job-id OF-TYPE integer WITH-VALUE >0
EXPECT job-uri OF-TYPE uri
}
{
# The name of the test
NAME "Wait for Job to Complete"
# The request to send
OPERATION Get-Job-Attributes
GROUP operation-attributes-tag
ATTR charset attributes-charset utf-8
ATTR language attributes-natural-language en
ATTR uri printer-uri $uri
ATTR integer job-id $job-id
ATTR name requesting-user-name $user
# The response to expect
STATUS successful-ok
EXPECT job-id OF-TYPE integer WITH-VALUE $job-id
EXPECT job-uri OF-TYPE uri
EXPECT job-state OF-TYPE enum WITH-VALUE >5 REPEAT-NO-MATCH
EXPECT job-originating-user-name OF-TYPE name WITH-VALUE "$user"
# Show the job state until completed...
DISPLAY job-state
DISPLAY job-state-reasons
}
The following directives can be used outside of a test:
- { test }
- Defines a test.
- DEFINE
variable-name value
- Defines the named variable to the given value. This is equivalent to
specifying -d variable-name=value on the ipptool(8)
command-line.
- DEFINE-DEFAULT
variable-name value
- Defines the named variable to the given value if it does not already have
a value.
- FILE-ID
"identifier"
- Specifies an identifier string for the current file.
- IGNORE-ERRORS
yes
- IGNORE-ERRORS
no
- Specifies whether, by default, ipptool(8) will ignore errors and
continue with subsequent tests.
- INCLUDE
"filename"
- INCLUDE
<filename>
- Includes another test file. The first form includes a file relative to the
current test file, while the second form includes a file from the
ipptool(8) include directory.
- INCLUDE-IF-DEFINED
name "filename"
- INCLUDE-IF-DEFINED
name <filename>
- Includes another test file if the named variable is defined. The first
form includes a file relative to the current test file, while the second
form includes a file from the ipptool(8) include directory.
- INCLUDE-IF-NOT-DEFINED
name "filename"
- INCLUDE-IF-NOT-DEFINED
name <filename>
- Includes another test file if the named variable is not defined. The first
form includes a file relative to the current test file, while the second
form includes a file from the ipptool(8) include directory.
- SKIP-IF-DEFINED
variable-name
- SKIP-IF-NOT-DEFINED
variable-name
- Specifies that the remainder of the test file should be skipped when the
variable is or is not defined.
- STOP-AFTER-INCLUDE-ERROR
no
- STOP-AFTER-INCLUDE-ERROR
yes
- Specifies whether tests will be stopped after an error in an included
file.
- TRANSFER
auto
- Specifies that tests will, by default, use "Transfer-Encoding:
chunked" for requests with attached files and
"Content-Length:" for requests without attached files.
- TRANSFER
chunked
- Specifies that tests will, by default, use the HTTP/1.1
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header. This is the default and is
equivalent to specifying -c on the ipptool(8) command-line.
Support for chunked requests is required for conformance with all versions
of IPP.
- TRANSFER
length
- Specifies that tests will, by default, use the HTTP/1.0
"Content-Length:" header. This is equivalent to specifying
-l on the ipptool(8) command-line. Support for content
length requests is required for conformance with all versions of IPP.
- VERSION
1.0
- VERSION
1.1
- VERSION
2.0
- VERSION
2.1
- VERSION
2.2
- Specifies the default IPP version number to use for the tests that
follow.
The following directives are understood within a test:
- ATTR out-of-band-tag
attribute-name
- ATTR tag
attribute-name value(s)
- Adds an attribute to the test request. Out-of-band tags (admin-define,
delete-attribute, no-value, not-settable, unknown, unsupported) have no
value. Values for other tags are separated by the comma (",")
character - escape commas using the " Common attributes and values
are listed in the IANA IPP registry - see references below.
- ATTR collection
attribute-name { MEMBER tag member-name value(s) ...
} [ ... ,{ ... } ]
- Adds a collection attribute to the test request. Member attributes follow
the same syntax as regular attributes and can themselves be nested
collections. Multiple collection values can be supplied as needed,
separated by commas.
- COMPRESSION
deflate
- COMPRESSION
gzip
- COMPRESSION
none
- Uses the specified compression on the document data following the
attributes in a Print-Job or Send-Document request.
- DELAY
seconds[,repeat-seconds]
- Specifies a delay in seconds before this test will be run. If two values
are specified, the second value is used as the delay between repeated
tests.
- DISPLAY
attribute-name
- Specifies that value of the named attribute should be output as part of
the test report.
- EXPECT
attribute-name [ predicate(s) ]
- EXPECT
?attribute-name predicate(s)
- EXPECT
!attribute-name
- Specifies that the response must/may/must not include the named attribute.
Additional requirements can be added as predicates - see the "EXPECT
PREDICATES" section for more information on predicates. Attribute
names can specify member attributes by separating the attribute and member
names with the forward slash, for example
"media-col/media-size/x-dimension".
- EXPECT-ALL
attribute-name [ predicate(s) ]
- EXPECT-ALL
?attribute-name predicate(s)
- Specifies that the response must/may include the named attribute and that
all occurrences of that attribute must match the given predicates.
- FILE
filename
- Specifies a file to include at the end of the request. This is typically
used when sending a test print file.
- GROUP tag
- Specifies the group tag for subsequent attributes in the request.
- IGNORE-ERRORS
yes
- IGNORE-ERRORS
no
- Specifies whether ipptool(8) will ignore errors and continue with
subsequent tests.
- NAME "literal string"
- Specifies the human-readable name of the test.
- OPERATION
operation-code
- Specifies the operation to be performed.
- PAUSE
"message"
- Displays the provided message and waits for the user to press a key to
continue.
- REQUEST-ID
number
- REQUEST-ID
random
- Specifies the request-id value to use in the request, either an integer or
the word "random" to use a randomly generated value (the
default).
- RESOURCE
path
- Specifies an alternate resource path that is used for the HTTP POST
request. The default is the resource from the URI provided to the
ipptool(8) program.
- SKIP-IF-DEFINED
variable-name
- SKIP-IF-NOT-DEFINED
variable-name
- Specifies that the current test should be skipped when the variable is or
is not defined.
- SKIP-PREVIOUS-ERROR
yes
- SKIP-PREVIOUS-ERROR
no
- Specifies whether ipptool(8) will skip the current test if the
previous test resulted in an error/failure.
- STATUS
status-code [ predicate ]
- Specifies an expected response status-code value. Additional requirements
can be added as predicates - see the "STATUS PREDICATES" section
for more information on predicates.
- TEST-ID
"identifier"
- Specifies an identifier string for the current test.
- TRANSFER
auto
- Specifies that this test will use "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
if it has an attached file or "Content-Length:" otherwise.
- TRANSFER
chunked
- Specifies that this test will use the HTTP/1.1 "Transfer-Encoding:
chunked" header.
- TRANSFER
length
- Specifies that this test will use the HTTP/1.0 "Content-Length:"
header.
- VERSION
1.0
- VERSION
1.1
- VERSION
2.0
- VERSION
2.1
- VERSION
2.2
- Specifies the IPP version number to use for this test.
The following predicates are understood following the
EXPECT test directive:
- COUNT
number
- Requires the EXPECT attribute to have the specified number of
values.
- DEFINE-MATCH
variable-name
- Defines the variable to "1" when the EXPECT condition
matches. A side-effect of this predicate is that this EXPECT will
never fail a test.
- DEFINE-NO-MATCH
variable-name
- Defines the variable to "1" when the EXPECT condition
does not match. A side-effect of this predicate is that this EXPECT
will never fail a test.
- DEFINE-VALUE
variable-name
- Defines the variable to the value of the attribute when the EXPECT
condition matches. A side-effect of this predicate is that this
EXPECT will never fail a test.
- IF-DEFINED
variable-name
- Makes the EXPECT conditions apply only if the specified variable is
defined.
- IF-NOT-DEFINED
variable-name
- Makes the EXPECT conditions apply only if the specified variable is
not defined.
- IN-GROUP
tag
- Requires the EXPECT attribute to be in the specified group
tag.
- OF-TYPE
tag[,tag,...]
- Requires the EXPECT attribute to use one of the specified value
tag(s).
- REPEAT-LIMIT
number
-
Specifies the maximum number of times to repeat if the REPEAT-MATCH
or REPEAT-NO-MATCH predicate is specified. The default value is
1000.
- REPEAT-MATCH
- REPEAT-NO-MATCH
- Specifies that the current test should be repeated when the EXPECT
condition matches or does not match.
- SAME-COUNT-AS
attribute-name
- Requires the EXPECT attribute to have the same number of values as
the specified parallel attribute.
- WITH-ALL-HOSTNAMES
"literal string"
- WITH-ALL-HOSTNAMES
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that all URI values contain a matching hostname.
- WITH-ALL-RESOURCES
"literal string"
- WITH-ALL-RESOURCES
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that all URI values contain a matching resource (including
leading /).
- WITH-ALL-SCHEMES
"literal string"
- WITH-ALL-SCHEMES
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that all URI values contain a matching scheme.
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
"literal string"
- Requires that all values of the EXPECT attribute match the literal
string. Comparisons are case-sensitive.
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
<number
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
=number
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
>number
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
number[,...,number]
- Requires that all values of the EXPECT attribute match the
number(s) or numeric comparison. When comparing rangeOfInteger values, the
"<" and ">" operators only check the upper bound
of the range.
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
"false"
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
"true"
- Requires that all values of the EXPECT attribute match the boolean
value given.
- WITH-ALL-VALUES
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that all values of the EXPECT attribute match the regular
expression, which must conform to the POSIX regular expression syntax.
Comparisons are case-sensitive.
- WITH-HOSTNAME
"literal string"
- WITH-HOSTNAME
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that at least one URI value contains a matching hostname.
- WITH-RESOURCE
"literal string"
- WITH-RESOURCE
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that at least one URI value contains a matching resource
(including leading /).
- WITH-SCHEME
"literal string"
- WITH-SCHEME
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that at least one URI value contains a matching scheme.
- WITH-VALUE
"literal string"
- Requires that at least one value of the EXPECT attribute matches
the literal string. Comparisons are case-sensitive.
- WITH-VALUE
<number
- WITH-VALUE
=number
- WITH-VALUE
>number
- WITH-VALUE
number[,...,number]
- Requires that at least one value of the EXPECT attribute matches
the number(s) or numeric comparison. When comparing rangeOfInteger values,
the "<" and ">" operators only check the upper
bound of the range.
- WITH-VALUE
"false"
- WITH-VALUE
"true"
- Requires that at least one value of the EXPECT attribute matches
the boolean value given.
- WITH-VALUE
"/regular expression/"
- Requires that at least one value of the EXPECT attribute matches
the regular expression, which must conform to the POSIX regular expression
syntax. Comparisons are case-sensitive.
- WITH-VALUE-FROM
attribute-name
- Requires that the value(s) of the EXPECT attribute matches the
value(s) in the specified attribute. For example, "EXPECT job-sheets
WITH-VALUE-FROM job-sheets-supported" requires that the
"job-sheets" value is listed as a value of the
"job-sheets-supported" attribute.
The following predicates are understood following the
STATUS test directive:
- DEFINE-MATCH
variable-name
- Defines the variable to "1" when the STATUS matches. A
side-effect of this predicate is that this STATUS will never fail a
test.
- DEFINE-NO-MATCH
variable-name
- Defines the variable to "1" when the STATUS does not
match. A side-effect of this predicate is that this STATUS will
never fail a test.
- IF-DEFINED
variable-name
- Makes the STATUS apply only if the specified variable is
defined.
- IF-NOT-DEFINED
variable-name
- Makes the STATUS apply only if the specified variable is not
defined.
- REPEAT-LIMIT
number
-
Specifies the maximum number of times to repeat. The default value is
1000.
- REPEAT-MATCH
- REPEAT-NO-MATCH
- Specifies that the current test should be repeated when the response
status-code matches or does not match the value specified by the STATUS
directive.
Operation codes correspond to the hexadecimal numbers (0xHHHH) and
names from RFC 8011 and other IPP extension specifications. Here is a
complete list of names supported by ipptool(8):
Activate-Printer
CUPS-Accept-Jobs
CUPS-Add-Modify-Class
CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer
CUPS-Authenticate-Job
CUPS-Delete-Class
CUPS-Delete-Printer
CUPS-Get-Classes
CUPS-Get-Default
CUPS-Get-Devices
CUPS-Get-Document
CUPS-Get-PPD
CUPS-Get-PPDs
CUPS-Get-Printers
CUPS-Move-Job
CUPS-Reject-Jobs
CUPS-Set-Default
Cancel-Current-Job
Cancel-Job
Cancel-Jobs
Cancel-My-Jobs
Cancel-Subscription
Close-Job
Create-Job
Create-Job-Subscriptions
Create-Printer-Subscriptions
Deactivate-Printer
Disable-Printer
Enable-Printer
Get-Job-Attributes
Get-Jobs
Get-Notifications
Get-Printer-Attributes
Get-Printer-Support-Files
Get-Printer-Supported-Values
Get-Subscription-Attributes
Get-Subscriptions
Hold-Job
Hold-New-Jobs
Identify-Printer
Pause-Printer
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
Print-Job
Print-URI
Promote-Job
Purge-Jobs
Release-Held-New-Jobs
Release-Job
Renew-Subscription
Reprocess-Job
Restart-Job
Restart-Printer
Resubmit-Job
Resume-Job
Resume-Printer
Schedule-Job-After
Send-Document
Send-Hardcopy-Document
Send-Notifications
Send-URI
Set-Job-Attributes
Set-Printer-Attributes
Shutdown-Printer
Startup-Printer
Suspend-Current-Job
Validate-Document
Validate-Job
Status codes correspond to the hexadecimal numbers (0xHHHH) and
names from RFC 8011 and other IPP extension specifications. Here is a
complete list of the names supported by ipptool(8):
client-error-account-authorization-failed
client-error-account-closed
client-error-account-info-needed
client-error-account-limit-reached
client-error-attributes-not-settable
client-error-attributes-or-values-not-supported
client-error-bad-request
client-error-charset-not-supported
client-error-compression-error
client-error-compression-not-supported
client-error-conflicting-attributes
client-error-document-access-error
client-error-document-format-error
client-error-document-format-not-supported
client-error-document-password-error
client-error-document-permission-error
client-error-document-security-error
client-error-document-unprintable-error
client-error-forbidden
client-error-gone
client-error-ignored-all-notifications
client-error-ignored-all-subscriptions
client-error-not-authenticated
client-error-not-authorized
client-error-not-found
client-error-not-possible
client-error-print-support-file-not-found
client-error-request-entity-too-large
client-error-request-value-too-long
client-error-timeout
client-error-too-many-subscriptions
client-error-uri-scheme-not-supported
cups-error-account-authorization-failed
cups-error-account-closed
cups-error-account-info-needed
cups-error-account-limit-reached
cups-see-other
redirection-other-site
server-error-busy
server-error-device-error
server-error-internal-error
server-error-job-canceled
server-error-multiple-document-jobs-not-supported
server-error-not-accepting-jobs
server-error-operation-not-supported
server-error-printer-is-deactivated
server-error-service-unavailable
server-error-temporary-error
server-error-version-not-supported
successful-ok
successful-ok-but-cancel-subscription
successful-ok-conflicting-attributes
successful-ok-events-complete
successful-ok-ignored-notifications
successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes
successful-ok-ignored-subscriptions
successful-ok-too-many-events
Value and group tags correspond to the names from RFC 8011 and
other IPP extension specifications. Here are the group tags:
document-attributes-tag
event-notification-attributes-tag
job-attributes-tag
operation-attributes-tag
printer-attributes-tag
subscription-attributes-tag
unsupported-attributes-tag
Here are the value tags:
admin-define
boolean
charset
collection
dateTime
default
delete-attribute
enum
integer
keyword
mimeMediaType
nameWithLanguage
nameWithoutLanguage
naturalLanguage
no-value
not-settable
octetString
rangeOfInteger
resolution
textWithLanguage
textWithoutLanguage
unknown
unsupported
uri
uriScheme
The ipptool(8) program maintains a list of variables that
can be used in any literal string or attribute value by specifying
"$variable-name". Aside from variables defined using the
-d option or DEFINE directive, the following pre-defined
variables are available:
- $$
- Inserts a single "$" character.
- $ENV[name]
- Inserts the value of the named environment variable, or an empty string if
the environment variable is not defined.
- $filename
- Inserts the filename provided to ipptool(8) with the -f
option.
- $filetype
- Inserts the MIME media type for the filename provided to ipptool(8)
with the -f option.
- $hostname
- Inserts the hostname from the URI provided to ipptool(8).
- $job-id
- Inserts the last "job-id" attribute value returned in a test
response or 0 if no "job-id" attribute has been seen.
- $job-uri
- Inserts the last "job-uri" attribute value returned in a test
response or an empty string if no "job-uri" attribute has been
seen.
- $notify-subscription-id
- Inserts the last "notify-subscription-id" attribute value
returned in a test response or 0 if no "notify-subscription-id"
attribute has been seen.
- $port
- Inserts the port number from the URI provided to ipptool(8).
- $resource
- Inserts the resource path from the URI provided to ipptool(8).
- $scheme
- Inserts the scheme from the URI provided to ipptool(8).
- $uri
- Inserts the URI provided to ipptool(8).
- $uriuser
- Inserts the username from the URI provided to ipptool(8), if
any.
- $user
- Inserts the current user's login name.
ipptool(1), IANA IPP Registry
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipp-registrations), PWG Internet Printing
Protocol Workgroup (http://www.pwg.org/ipp), RFC 8011
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8011)
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