class ServiceBase :
	config = {}
	namespace = {}
	data = {}
	_status = "Ready"
	_subjects = []
	def __init__(self,config,namespace,subjects,dossiercopy):
		if not config or config == {} :
			self.results.update({"No configuration found":"Nothing to do"})
			self._status = "Error"
		else :
			self.config = config
		self.data = dossiercopy
		self.namespace = namespace
		self._subjects = subjects
	pass

	def _lookup_subjects(self) :
		finaldictionary = {}
		for item in self._subjects :
			finaldictionary.update({item:self.perform_lookup(item)})
		return finaldictionary

	def get_arguments() :
		"""Returns an array of information used to construct an argumentparser argument."""
		# [ <short flag>,<unix flag>,<arg type>,<description> ]
		# Example return: [ '-n', '--net', 'store_true', "Output network information about the subject" ]
		return None

	def perform_lookup(self,host_tuple) :
		"""Returns a JSON string with lookup information about the given IP or Hostname."""
		# Host tuple is a socket triple (hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist) where hostname is
		# the primary host name responding to the given ip_address, aliaslist is a (possibly
		# empty) tuple of alternative host names for the same address, and ipaddrlist is a tuple
		# of IPv4/v6 addresses for the same interface on the same host (most likely containing
		# only a single address).
		return None