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+#
+# coreclient.py
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Martijn Voncken <mvoncken@gmail.com>
+#
+# Deluge is free software.
+#
+# You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
+# GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# deluge is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+# See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with deluge.    If not, write to:
+# 	The Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 	51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
+# 	Boston, MA    02110-1301, USA.
+#
+#    In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
+#    permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL
+#    library.
+#    You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of
+#    the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify file(s) with this
+#    exception, you may extend this exception to your version of the file(s),
+#    but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete
+#    this exception statement from your version. If you delete this exception
+#    statement from all source files in the program, then also delete it here.
+
+
+import deluge.component as component
+
+class CoreClient(object):
+    """
+    provides the uiclient interface to core plugins
+    see http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Development/UiClient
+    """
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.core = component.get("Core")
+
+    def __getattr__(self, func_name):
+        return self.core.funcs[func_name]
+
+client = CoreClient()
+