Setting AdditionalServers in Pyscan

[Jeff]

Hello

I am encountering problems in the configuration of AdditionalServers
in Pyscan, eg

additionalServers = "test.wisc.edu;test2.wisc.edu"

iList = additionalServers.split(';')

appScanConfig = appScan.Scan.ScanData.Config

# the below fails
appScanConfig.set_AdditionalServers(iList)

Any thoughts? Thank you!

[Watchfire AXF]

Hi Jeff,

Python lists are not automatically converted to .Net Lists. However, Python
string is automatically converted to .Net string, so you can set the
additional-servers list one by one pretty quickly in the following way:

appScanConfig.AdditionalServers.Clear()
for additionalServer in iList:
appScanConfig.AdditionalServers.Add(additionalServer)

BTW[1] - you should use the SDK documentation to find the real method names,
instead of the methods that you see in Python (when using dir()), for
example, instead of using appScanConfig.set_AdditionalServers(iList), you
should use the method shown above -
appScanConfig.AdditionalServers.Add(additionalServer).

BTW[2] - in most cases, when you see a method that starts with set_ , you
can probably just set the value using =, for example:

Instead of calling set_X(value), you can just use X = value

Hope this clears things up,
-Ory

[Jeffrey Savoy]

Hello Ory

In terms of the SDK documentation, are you referring to appScanSDK.chm within the AppScan Docs folder?  This doc seems to contain examples in .net but not for Pyscan/Python?  For example, I do not find appScanConfig.AdditionalServers.Add() listed.  I am looking at the correct document/place?

Thank you!

-Jeffrey

Jeffrey Savoy, CISSP EnCE GCIA

Informaiton Security Officer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

608-262-8369

On May 22, 2007, at 2:50 AM, Watchfire AXF wrote:

BTW[1] - you should use the SDK documentation to find the real method names,

instead of the methods that you see in Python (when using dir()), for

example, instead of using appScanConfig.set_AdditionalServers(iList), you

should use the method shown above -

appScanConfig.AdditionalServers.Add(additionalServer).

-Ory

[Watchfire AXF]

Hi Jeffrey,

 

Yes, you are referring to the right document. AppScan's SDK is .NET, and Pyscan is an integration of Python with the .NET SDK. That's why I suggested using the AppScanSDK help file to find out the method names.

 

With regards to the appScanConfig.AdditionalServers.Add() not being listed, I believe it's because the property appScanConfig.AdditionalServers, is a .NET String IList object. For some reason the IList documentation is missing (will be fixed), but most .NET lists have an Add() method, so this is probably why the Add() method exists for the AdditionalServers property.

 

Hope this helps,

-Ory

 

  

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