get_results returns TypeError: Expected str or file, got '<type 'Element'>' instead

[liuyoyi]

openvas_results = scanner.get_report_id(scan_id)
print openvas_results

Returns

TypeError: Expected str or file, got '<type 'Element'>' instead

Why??????

[codenside]

I dig into the code actually report_parser expecting a file or string as argument, but the get_result method giving and Element object. so I comment it out the parse part

and I wrote my own function to parse the result as follow

def parse(res):
    output = []
    results = res.getchildren()

    for result in results:
        children = result.getchildren()
        obj = {}
        for child in children:
            obj[child.tag] = child.text
        output.append(obj)
    return output

I can now call it like this

parse(scanner.get_results(scan_id))

which returns a python list contains all results

I don't know how to fix the original parse function, I believe they will patch it soon ❇️

[Geniussylvain]

Hello,
I would like to know where do you write this code in the init_.py file ?

Thanks

Sylvain

[thinksabin]

i'm facing same issue:

File "/Users/openvas-stuffs/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openvas_lib/ompv7.py", line 1099, in get_report_xml
raise TypeError("Expected string, got %r instead" % type(report_id))
TypeError: Expected string, got <type 'NoneType'> instead