# Copyright (C) 2004 Nicolas Delon <nicolas@prelude-ids.org>
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import ReportNone
import ReportStdout

def prelude():
    """
    Workaround.
    
    We can't load ReportPrelude the way we did it with ReportNone because ReportPrelude does
    an import prelude, it means that we must have libprelude installed, and having libprelude
    must only be a requirement if the user choose prelude as a the reporting method, not in
    other cases.
    """
    import ReportPrelude
    
    return ReportPrelude.Report()


def Report(type="stdout"):
    "Pseudo/fake class that calls the good reporting backend."
    reports = {
        "stdout": ReportStdout.Report,
        "prelude": prelude,
        "none": ReportNone.Report
        }
    
    return reports[type]()