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[konrads]

Hi,

I took a slightly different approach to MaltegoEntity (I learned about this, existing lib after the fact).

I am using DOM (xml.dom.minidom) instead of print and text concatenation. Each entity is a subclass of MaltegoEntity and is responsible for transforming itself into DOM.

Under what license is Your library published? Perhaps we can merge our approaches under BSD?

[AndrewMacPherson]

I think this would be a great idea, whereby we merge the generic nature of the original libs with the DOM model of yours!

[konrads]

Hi,

Here is my version of API. It uses ElementTree for DOM.

Some example usage patterns:
Attempt one, make a person

Code:

from maltego import *
mt=MaltegoTransform()
person=GenericMaltegoEntity("Person", "Konrads Smelkovs")
person.addAdditionalField("My name", "Konrads")
mt.message.addEntity(person)
mt.printMessage()

Let''''s try some inheritance (hopefuly, we''''ll have a nice type library in no time!

Code:

from maltego import *
class Person(GenericMaltegoEntity):
    """
    A smarter person class
    """
    entityType="Person"
    def __init__(self,value):
        self.value=value
        (fn,ln)=self.value.split(" ",2)
        self.addAdditionalField("firstName", fn,"My First name")
        self.addAdditionalField("lastName", ln,"My Last Name")
mt=MaltegoTransform()
person=Person("Konrads Smelkovs")

mt.message.addEntity(person)
mt.printMessage()

Three files (attached):

• maltego.py - the API library
• cdata_etree.py - an extension to ElementTree that supports CDATA section(I did not write it, see top comment)
• whois2.py - an example transformation

What this needs is unittests, an API description - both inline via docstrings and external as AndrewMohawk did for his, and of course testing. Probably a SVN server would be helpful.

[konrads]

Just a few comments:

• There are no setters/getters for fields where they do not have value added, e.g. ent.setValue(), user should just ent.value="mystr"
• The reason why stderr and stdout can be done as parameters is: I hope there will be unittests for this at some point

[konrads]

Hi, there is a subversion repository for this library @
http://rogue.smelkovs.com/svn/pymaltego/trunk/

If You want write access, mail me 

You can also just download the source dist as zip file

[H]

I had some issues with IconURL and additionalFields for entities not being output correctly in the XML output of a transform using pymaltego.

Both of those issues are fixed in the current version in the SVN.

Thanks konrads!

[konrads]

Hi,
Indeed there are some bug fixes now. See attached file for a "release" or use SVN