python-gvm 1.0.0.beta2

Changes

gvm.protocols.base

• Fix: Don't close the connection after each send/read command sequence
  automatically. This fixes sending more then one privileged gmp command after
  authentication.

gvm.protocols.gmpv7

• Fixed generating XML for help command
• help method type argument got renamed to help_type
• help method help_type argument will be checked for invalid values
• Fixed wrong order of key and value for condition_data, event_data and
  method_data dict parameters of create_alert method.
• create_credential requires a credential_type argument now.
• Optional parameters are required to be passed as keyword arguments.
• Fixed get_reports sending the wrong protocol command
• Removed format_id argument from get_reports
• get_report method format_id argument got renamed to
  report_format_id
• Removed alert_id argument from get_reports
• Added new trigger_alert method for triggering an alert method on a
  specific report.
• Fixed create_permission method
• Check if scanner_type is one of '1' (OSP Scanner) or '2' (OpenVAS Scanner) in
  create_scanner method.
• Fixed get_config sending the correct protocol command.
• Added import_config method to import a scan config from xml.

gvm.xml

• Added helper function to validate xml input gvm.xml.validate_xml_string
• pretty_print accepts a xml string as input too

gvm.connections

• Optional arguments for connection class constructors must be passed as
  keyword arguments.
• Add finish_send method to connections. The method allows to indicate to
  the server sending data is finished and no additional data has to be received.
• Don't crash if huge content is returned in a xml response. This fixes e.g.
  get_reports for bigger report data.
• It's possible to wait indefinitely by deactivating the timeouts via passing
  None as timeout argument to the connection class constructors now.
• Removed unused read_timeout argument from UnixSocketConnection

python-gvm 1.0.0.beta1

This is the first release of python-gvm.

python-gvm was a part of gvm-tools prior version 2.0. It got extracted from gvm-tools and completely overhauled.

Some notable changes are:

• The package name changed from gmp to gvm.
• The type of connection is passed to a more generic Gmp class instead of
  having to select the connection when creating the gmp object.
• Support for different protocols and versions has been added. Currently
  supported protocols are OSP v1 and GMP v7.
• Full API documentation is available at https://python-gvm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
• Possible arguments to protocol methods are documented.
• Arguments should be passed as keywords

Gmp API changes

• create_report has been renamed to import_report.
• Requesting single entities has been extracted from the list commands e.g.
  get_task(task_id) instead of get_tasks(task_id=task_id).
• get_info requests a single info entity.
• get_info_list requests a list of info entities.
• filt_id argument is called filter_id at all Gmp methods.
• report_filter argument for get_reports got renamed to filter.
  report_filt_id is filter_id now.
• create_schedule start_time and end_time arguments got split into
  several parameters.
• Plural arguments like hosts, users, ... always require a list now.
• create_alert event, condition and method arguments got
  revised and split.
• boolean parameters expect True and False and not 1, 0, '1' or '0' now.
• get_assets type parameter got renamed to asset_type
• Copying an entity via the copy argument has been removed and extracted to
  own clone methods e.g. clone_task.