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Re: Date formats for structured output
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:27:44 -0700
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:51:37AM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
One takeaway is that libraries in general should return unformatted data to scripts, and let scripts do their own formatting (smb.get_os() does some formatting of time values that made it necessary to modify it to return raw values to format this timestamp as ISO8601).
I've noticed this as well. Some libraries are returning values that are convenient for the screen output we have been using, but are not as atomic as we would like for individual data items. Perhaps this will be a good development all around as it will encourage library authors to make their return value easy to use. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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