Re: [NSE] Patch to get_args for deprecation

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:35:52PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:27:33 -0700 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > This would only apply to scripts, not libraries. (I'm not sure if
> > that's technically easy to accomplish.) If a script wants only a fully
> > qualified name for whatever reason, get_script_args could be smart
> > enough to look for a dot and not add an extra qualification in that
> > case.
>
> I'm not quite sure I understand what you're saying, but I've also been
> at my computer for the better part of the last 15 hours working mostly
> on SMB stuff. Can you phrase it differently? :)
>
> I think it makes sense for libraries to have qualified names, too,
> which you may have been disagreeing with. 'smb.user' makes a lot more
> sense than just 'user' and way more sense than, say,
> 'smb-psexec.user'. 

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
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