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class OnlineMeetingProviderType

Maturity: 42

An enumeration class that defines constants representing different types of online meeting providers.

File:
/tf/active/vicechatdev/SPFCsync/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/office365/communications/onlinemeetings/provider_type.py
Lines:
1 - 17
Complexity:
simple

Purpose

This class serves as a type enumeration for online meeting providers, providing named integer constants to identify different meeting platform types (Skype for Business, Skype for Consumer, Teams for Business, or Unknown). It acts as a namespace for these constants rather than a traditional instantiable class, allowing code to use meaningful names instead of magic numbers when specifying meeting provider types.

Source Code

class OnlineMeetingProviderType:
    """Specifies the type of a principal."""

    def __init__(self):
        pass

    unknown = 0
    """"""

    skypeForBusiness = 1
    """"""

    skypeForConsumer = 2
    """"""

    teamsForBusiness = 3
    """"""

Parameters

Name Type Default Kind
bases - -

Parameter Details

__init__: The constructor takes no parameters and performs no initialization. It exists only to allow instantiation, though this class is typically used by accessing its class-level constants directly rather than creating instances.

Return Value

Instantiation returns an OnlineMeetingProviderType object with no instance-specific state. The class is primarily used for its class-level integer constants (unknown=0, skypeForBusiness=1, skypeForConsumer=2, teamsForBusiness=3) which are accessed directly on the class without instantiation.

Class Interface

Methods

__init__(self) -> None

Purpose: Initializes an instance of OnlineMeetingProviderType with no state

Returns: None - constructor returns the instance implicitly

Attributes

Name Type Description Scope
unknown int Constant representing an unknown or unspecified online meeting provider type (value: 0) class
skypeForBusiness int Constant representing Skype for Business as the online meeting provider (value: 1) class
skypeForConsumer int Constant representing Skype for Consumer as the online meeting provider (value: 2) class
teamsForBusiness int Constant representing Microsoft Teams for Business as the online meeting provider (value: 3) class

Usage Example

# Typical usage - accessing class constants directly without instantiation
provider_type = OnlineMeetingProviderType.teamsForBusiness
print(provider_type)  # Output: 3

# Checking provider type
if provider_type == OnlineMeetingProviderType.teamsForBusiness:
    print("This is a Teams for Business meeting")

# Using in a function
def get_meeting_url(provider_type):
    if provider_type == OnlineMeetingProviderType.skypeForBusiness:
        return "https://meet.skype.com/business"
    elif provider_type == OnlineMeetingProviderType.skypeForConsumer:
        return "https://meet.skype.com/consumer"
    elif provider_type == OnlineMeetingProviderType.teamsForBusiness:
        return "https://teams.microsoft.com/meeting"
    else:
        return "Unknown provider"

url = get_meeting_url(OnlineMeetingProviderType.teamsForBusiness)
print(url)  # Output: https://teams.microsoft.com/meeting

# Less common - instantiation (not typically needed)
instance = OnlineMeetingProviderType()
print(instance.skypeForBusiness)  # Output: 1

Best Practices

  • Use class constants directly without instantiating the class (e.g., OnlineMeetingProviderType.teamsForBusiness)
  • Consider using Python's built-in Enum class instead for better type safety and IDE support
  • The class docstring mentions 'principal' but the class is about meeting providers - this appears to be a documentation error
  • This pattern is a legacy approach to enumerations; modern Python code should use enum.Enum or enum.IntEnum
  • When comparing values, always use the class constants rather than hardcoded integers for maintainability
  • The 'unknown' constant (value 0) should be used as a default or fallback when the provider type cannot be determined

Tags

enumeration constants online-meeting provider-type skype teams microsoft meeting-platform type-definition

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