Re: An update on socket abstractions

[Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>]

2013/8/27 Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jacek Wielemborek
> <wielemborekj1 () gmail com> wrote:
> > https://secwiki.org/w/Ncat-Lua/Socket_abstractions
>
>
> Thanks for documenting this, Jacek.  I agree that the new "object oriented"
> syntax looks better than ncatins+select.  As far as forward compatibility
> with argument passing, I'm not sure that the extra syntax is worth it.
> After all, if we ever add an argument to read() or send(), it's not all that
> hard to go through all the scripts in the Nmap tree and update them.  That
> is what we do when we make NSE changes.  But whatever you and David decide
> is fine with me.
>
> Cheers,
> Fyodor

Yeah, I'm not exactly convinced it was the best idea, though at least
I learned quite a lot of Lua in the process of looking for this
interface. While converting the scripts to this concept, I noticed
it's quite a lot of work to test them all already - this got me
thinking, how do you perform this process in NSE? I guess you don't
make much major changes in the first place, but from what I learned
yesterday, it basically calls for a test-driven approach to make sure
that an API change didn't break anything.

As for secwiki documentation, I found this the best way to organize it
all for myself. I figured that in this form, this could also be useful
while writing some final documentation and communicating my progress
in a more detailed manner.
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