Re: NSE structured output--normal output formatting

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com> wrote:
> I'm not super-familiar with SVN, but I think I created a branch under
> nmap-exp/dmiller/xml-output. If it worked, it should be up-to-date, but I'd
> appreciate instructions on keeping it up-to-date (with the trunk, that is. I
> can apply patches as I make commits easily enough).

Thanks!

> Regarding verbosity, I think I'm handling it like NSE does currently: give
> script authors the ability to detect verbosity settings (nmap.verbosity(),
> nmap.debugging()) and adjust output accordingly.

I think this will need to be part of interface at the very least on
the NSE side. Otherwise, how will NSE know what to print if it's given
a table by a script to transform into normal output?

> We could change it to tag
> output elements with a "verbosity score" and only display those below the
> current level, but that seems like a lot of work for not much benefit,
> considering that the current way has worked well so far.

I don't necessarily agree. The current way requires if statements
checking verbosity. I would much rather see tagging output elements
with a required verbosity level. If this functionality is in a script
output library as parameters to an output function, so much the
better.

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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