On Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009, Mark Wallis wrote:
> The switch() in report-save.c:file_save_ok_callback does seem a little
> confusing to me in the way that each report type is generated slightly
> differently. For example, the HTML and latex types both use the
> backend_convert function and then pass the returned arglist through
> another function which does the formatting. The XML_NG clause though
> uses a specialised backend_to_xml_ng function, and the PDF clause uses
> a completely different method all together.
>
> Perhaps there is a way that we can clean this area of code up to allow
> us to easily add new report types down the track ?
we inherited this "programming style & design" from Nessus.
Cleaning up, improving, generalizing are all very welcome
activities :-)
Best
Jan
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