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# Volatility
# Copyright (C) 2008 Volatile Systems
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
# your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
import sys, textwrap
class command(object):
""" Base class for each plugin command """
op = ""
opts = ""
args = ""
cmdname = ""
# meta_info will be removed
meta_info = {}
def __init__(self, config, *_args, **_kwargs):
""" Constructor uses args as an initializer. It creates an instance
of OptionParser, populates the options, and finally parses the
command line. Options are stored in the self.opts attribute.
"""
self._config = config
@staticmethod
def register_options(config):
"""Registers options into a config object provided"""
config.add_option("OUTPUT", default = 'text',
cache_invalidator = False,
help = "Output in this format (format support is module specific)")
config.add_option("OUTPUT-FILE", default = None,
cache_invalidator = False,
help = "write output in this file")
config.add_option("VERBOSE", default = 0, action = 'count',
cache_invalidator = False,
short_option = 'v', help = 'Verbose information')
@classmethod
def help(cls):
""" This function returns a string that will be displayed when a
user lists available plugins.
"""
try:
return textwrap.dedent(cls.__doc__)
except (AttributeError, TypeError):
return ""
def calculate(self):
""" This function is responsible for performing all calculations
We should not have any output functions (e.g. print) in this
function at all.
If this function is expected to take a long time to return
some data, the function should return a generator.
"""
def execute(self):
""" Executes the plugin command."""
## Executing plugins is done in two stages - first we calculate
data = self.calculate()
## Then we render the result in some way based on the
## requested output mode:
function_name = "render_{0}".format(self._config.OUTPUT)
if self._config.OUTPUT_FILE:
outfd = open(self._config.OUTPUT_FILE, 'w')
# TODO: We should probably check that this won't blat over an existing file
else:
outfd = sys.stdout
try:
func = getattr(self, function_name)
except AttributeError:
## Try to find out what formats are supported
result = []
for x in dir(self):
if x.startswith("render_"):
_a, b = x.split("_", 1)
result.append(b)
print "Plugin {0} is unable to produce output in format {1}. Supported formats are {2}. Please send a feature request".format(self.__class__.__name__, self._config.OUTPUT, result)
return
func(outfd, data)