Re: NSE argument table syntax

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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Joao Correa wrote:
> Also, there is one more problem. Using the new syntax requires
> programmers to use nmap.registry.args['table.arg'] instead of
> nmap.registry.args.table.arg. I don't know if everyone agrees, but I
> think that it can make the code a little dirtier.

Eeww, really?

Forgive me for my lack of knowledge of Lua and the inner workings of NSE, but
why can't you just store the stuff in the same args.table.arg format instead
of the args['table.arg'] ?

I wrote the following quicky Ruby script (also without error checking clutter
of course) to show you what I mean.  I'm going from what could be an initial
argument set given on the command line (for example) to what could be the args
table the scripts can use.

table = {}

[
        "simple = 'string'",
        "one.two.three = 4",
        "one.skip = 5",
        "and.also.a.really.super.duper.deep.deep.deep.one = []"
].each do |test|
        a = table

        ents, val = test.split(/\s*=\s*/)
        items = ents.split(".")

        items.each_with_index do |item, index|
                break if index == items.size - 1
                a[item] ||= {}
                a = a[item]
        end

        a[items.last] = eval val
end

After that, table is as follows (pp):

 {"simple"=>"string",
  "and"=>
   {"also"=>
     {"a"=>
       {"really"=>
         {"super"=>{"duper"=>{"deep"=>{"deep"=>{"deep"=>{"one"=>[]}}}}}}}}},
  "one"=>{"two"=>{"three"=>4}, "skip"=>5}}


So if it was done like this in Lua, I think you could just do

table.one.two.three

and get 4, right?  Isn't that how tables and stuff work in Lua?

Or am I just completely mistaken?  That's certainly in the realm of possibility...

> Thank you
> Joao Correa

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

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