Structured script output merge candidate 2

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 05:08:40PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> I have been integrating and editing Daniel Miller's patches for
> structured script output. Structured script output allows scripts to
> return a table of name-value pairs, which will be reflected in an
> element hierarchy in XML output. The code is here:
>
> svn co https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/david/xml-output
>
> This is what the XML output looks like. The normal output is the same as
> in Nmap trunk.
>
> https://secwiki.org/w/Nmap/Structured_Script_Output#Merge_candidate_1
>
> These commands show sample diffs that make scripts provide structured
> output:
>
> svn diff -c 29491 https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/david/xml-output
> svn diff -c 29492 https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/david/xml-output
> svn diff -c 29493 https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/david/xml-output
>
> This merge candidate is missing one thing, which is an ordered output
> table along the lines of what Patrik provided in
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/289.

I made a new merge candidate 2, the above branch at r29553, mainly
adding the stdnse.output_table function that allows ordering tables for
output. I think this branch is in a fit state to merge if there are no
objections.

Script authors should check out the changes and make sure that what
they'll need to do to make their scripts produce structured output is
tolerable. You can't just return the table that you've been passing to
stdnse.format_output. In most cases you want to build a nice queryable
table with thoughtful key names, then construct the format_output table
separately (possibly automatically).

David Fifield
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