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Add CustomHash class #229
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What do ya'll think about adding a CustomHash class which streamlines the creation of non-default hash types.
It could possibly derive from cybox.common.Hash but set the type_ field to an instance of cybox.common.String rather than cybox.common.VocabString (I'm not positive that'd work as planned).
It's not difficult to override the xsi:type, but it requires some in depth knoweldge of the data model and XML:
h = Hash("deadbeef", 'FOOHASH')
h.type_.xsi_type = None # this is a bit tricky
print h.to_xml()This yields:
<cyboxCommon:HashType
xmlns:cyboxCommon="http://cybox.mitre.org/common-2"
xmlns:cyboxVocabs="http://cybox.mitre.org/default_vocabularies-2"
xmlns:example="http://example.com"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://cybox.mitre.org/common-2 http://cybox.mitre.org/XMLSchema/common/2.1/cybox_common.xsd http://cybox.mitre.org/default_vocabularies-2 http://cybox.mitre.org/XMLSchema/default_vocabularies/2.1/cybox_default_vocabularies.xsd">
<cyboxCommon:Type>FOOHASH</cyboxCommon:Type>
<cyboxCommon:Simple_Hash_Value>deadbeef</cyboxCommon:Simple_Hash_Value>
</cyboxCommon:HashType>`h = CustomHash('deadbeef', 'FOOHASH') # automatically unsets the @xsi:type
print h.to_xml()
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gtback commentedon Feb 25, 2015
What about just adding a
add_custom_hash()function to theHashList(and maybe types that use it, such asFile)? I don't like adding more classes that aren't actual CybOX types (things likeEmailAddresscontinually cause trouble).bworrell commentedon Feb 25, 2015
Sure! I'm not married to the class-based approach and was mostly just brain dumping :)