Re: [NSE] new function to parse arguments

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

Nice, I've been meaning to write something like that. The whole unsafe=1 thing was pretty ugly. 

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:57:06 +0100 Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () gmail com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just added a simple code to check script arguments to the stdnse
> library in my branch: nmap-exp/djalal/nmap-add-targets  as
> r19753,r19755 and the patch is attached. The new function
> get_script_args() returns a table of valid argument/value pairs.
>
> This simple function if used by script writers, lets the user to
> specify script arguments as:
> --script-args="unsafe=1" or --script-args="unsafe"
>
> So the user do not need to *set* the 'unsafe' argument to activate it.
> The value of the argument is this situation will be a number '1'
> instead of a boolean to avoid some possible comparison errors in
> scripts.
>
> Adding code to specify/check argument types in the function will
> simply add complexity.
>
> Examples are shown in the nsedoc of the patch, pls let me know if you
> have suggestions.
>
> -- 
> tixxdz


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Ron Bowes
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