Re: [NSE][RFC] format.lua library

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:14:51PM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> List,
>
> Since David merged the XML NSE output functionality, I am eager to
> get started converting old scripts to the new format. To support
> this, I'm proposing the attached library, which I've called "format"
> for the moment.
>
> The idea is that there should be a collection of standardized ways
> of formatting output, to make it easy for script authors to take
> advantage of the structured output and to promote consistency in the
> Normal output. The functions I've put into the library to start are
> mostly focused around the __tostring way of formatting output, since
> the simple "return a table and a string" way doesn't really need any
> abstraction. Once this is committed, I'll commit a few of the
> altered scripts that I've already worked on, to make it clear by
> example how they are to be used.

This seems fine to me, though I haven't personally felt the need for any
of these functions. I'm interested in seeing how they would be used in
scripts first. Can you send some simple scripts using this library.

If we decide to keep this library, we would add the new
stdnse.format_timestamp and similar functions to it.

David Fifield
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