Re: using the credentials database

[Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>]

On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> > I've added some documentation and a new function called getCredentials that will hopefully get you what you need.
> > Let me know if there's anything else you find missing :)
>
> Sorry for being late to the party... I have a stylistic/efficiency
> concern here. I'd prefer this function be an iterator [1,2] rather
> than returning a potentially large table of tables. Something like:
>
> for credential in c:credentials(creds.State.VALID) do
> end
>
> You can accomplish this quite naturally with coroutines [3,4].
>
> [1] http://www.lua.org/pil/7.html
> [2] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.4.5
> [3] http://www.lua.org/pil/9.3.html
> [4] http://nmap.org/book/nse-parallelism.html#nse-parallelism-cm
>
> -- 
> - Patrick Donnelly


I modified the getCredentials function to return an iterator per your suggestion.
The attached patch contains my previous script argument patch as well as this change.

Attachment: creds-cli-add-iter.patch
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