Maybe something wrong with "example_check_connection.py"

[d4wner]

Well, sir , sorry to bother you again, but maybe I got a bug here.

When I use the demo file:
https://github.com/golismero/openvas_lib/blob/master/example_check_connection.py

I can't get my scan report at last, in fact I had seen scan result on the web, actually the target had been listed some vulnerabilities by openvas(web).
Then it gave me this error infomation:
must be string or buffer, not None

I checked it, and I found something at function write_report:
report = manager.get_report_html(report_id)

The value report here is not str type , instead it's an element type, so when the script went to:
report.find("report").text

Now it gets error , I think 'element' type may not have "find" attribute?
As a result , I can't solve this issue.
I had changed some targets , unfortunately I got the same error.

Dear sir, could you give a solution for it, looking forward to your kind reply!
Thank you!!!

[d4wner]

Sorry, I wanna to know if the author had seen my issue?
I'm a little worried about it，so whether the issue can be solved ，I really expect you to give a response，thanks!
Sincerely yours.

[cr0hn]

Hi,

Not yet. Tomorrow I'll try to investigate the issue

[kapoios]

I have this kind of problem as well (type problems)
My code straight from the examples:

from threading import Semaphore
from functools import partial
from openvas_lib import *

TARGET = "192.168.1.223"

def my_print_status(i):
    print(str(i))

def my_launch_scanner():

    sem = Semaphore(0)

    # Configure
    manager = VulnscanManager("localhost", "admin", "admin")

    # Launch
    scan_id, target_id = manager.launch_scan(TARGET,
                                                profile = "Full and fast",
                                                callback_end = partial(lambda x: x.release(), sem),
                                               callback_progress = my_print_status)

    # Wait
    sem.acquire()

    # Finished scan
    print("finished")
    print scan_id
    print target_id
    openvas_results = manager.get_results(str(scan_id))

def main():
    my_launch_scanner()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

This has the following result:

python openvas.py 
1.0
1.0
20.0
22.0
38.0
54.0
74.0
76.0
92.0
94.0
96.0
98.0
98.0
98.0
finished
6d0d09f0-c73e-4218-b01f-d6596bbf5f05
4af88054-ca5e-412e-8a2d-d30c87ad4d43
100.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "openvas.py", line 41, in <module>

  File "openvas.py", line 38, in main

  File "openvas.py", line 35, in my_launch_scanner
    if __name__ == "__main__":
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openvas_lib/__init__.py", line 694, in get_results
    return report_parser(m_response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openvas_lib/__init__.py", line 121, in report_parser
    raise TypeError("Expected str or file, got '%s' instead" % type(path_or_file))
TypeError: Expected str or file, got '<type 'Element'>' instead

I am using Python 2.7.11 with Openvas 8

[d4wner]

Well, I guess the arthur may be so busy that he forget the issue...

What a pity~~

But I still hope the arthur will solve the problem someday.

Wish this good project be better in the future!

[kapoios]

I ended up creating my own parser in Java, this project is not compatible with OMP 6.0

[WenhaoYu]

The report instance actually has the attribute "find ",you can print(dir(report)),but report.find("report").text returns None,it causes the mistake.manager.get_report_html not work well,but get_report_xml seems to be fine