Re: NSE structured output--normal output formatting

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:02:49AM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> I'll throw in one more advantage for the metamethod approach: nesting
> of different display types. Consider nfs-ls.nse, which has ls-style
> tables of data nested within an outline structure describing each
> export. With metamethods, I "tag" each ls-table with the
> rows-and-columns-style, then insert each into the standard-style
> output table. My implementation on Github can already handle this,
> since the recursive algorithm for standard outline-style tables checks
> for a __tostring metamethod on each subtable before recursing. This
> approach to nesting means that a library function (like mssql) could
> even return tables with built-in serialization, making it simpler for
> a script author to display results. The flexibility is still there to
> extract the data from the library results and reformat some other way.

I'm willing to consider such an approach. But here's the thing: I want
to see how scripts will have to look. Will you rewrite nfs-ls so that it
uses this style of output?

David Fifield
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