Re: [NSE] Patch to get_args for deprecation

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:41:30 -0700 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> I mean that the automatic qualification would only be done for
> scripts. If a script says get_script_args("user") then it would
> accept either "user" or "script-name.user". Libraries would have to
> do their own qualification, so a library would say
> get_script_args("smb.user") and it would only recognize the one
> argument "smb.user".
>
> get_script_args would look for a dot and not add the full
> qualification if the dot is present. get_script_args("user") would
> match both "script-name.user" and "user", but
> get_script_args("script-name.user") would match only
> "script-name.user". (Not "script-name.script-name.user".) Libraries
> would specify their arguments this way to make sure they use exactly
> the qualification they expect.
>
> David Fifield
Ah, I get it! 

That works for me. I'm assuming we'll end up having some convention (like "smb.") for groups of libraries, but it makes 
sense to do that manually. People writing libraries should hopefully be more careful than people writing scripts. 

Ron
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