Re: Suggestion: Using script output - Human-readable and machine-parseable

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

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On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:29:13 -0700 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> How about this: Write a new stdnse.yaml function with an interface
> similar to that of stdnse.format_output. Then we can switch scripts
> one at a time instead of all at once.
>
> What I am thinking is, that stdnse.yaml can somehow tag the output as
> being structured data and not just plain text. Then we can modify the
> XML output to look for this tag and emit an element hierarchy instead
> of (or in addition to) a chunk of text. But that's a second step; the
> first is just getting YAML on the screen.
>
> Take a look at json.generate, which does something similar.
>
> David Fifield
I think this is a great idea! When I wrote format_output(), I hoped that, by forcing the scripts to structure their 
data in some way, we'd be able to do something like this. 

It'll be quite an undertaking, but very rewarding in the end. :)

Ron
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