tox_profile/README.md

tox_profile

Read and manipulate tox profile files. It started as a simple script from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30901873/what-format-are-tox-files-stored-in

For the moment logging_tox_savefile.py just reads a Tox profile and prints to stdout various things that it finds. Then it writes what it found in YAML to stderr. Later it can be extended to print out JSON or YAML, and then extended to accept JSON or YAML to write a profile.

Usage

Reads a tox profile and prints out information on what's in there to stderr. Call it with one argument, the filename of the profile for the decrypt or info commands, or the filename of the nodes file for the nodes command.

3 commands are supported:

1. --command decrypt decrypts the profile and writes to the result to stdout
2. --command info prints info about what's in the Tox profile to stderr
3. --command nodes assumes you are reading a json nodes file instead of a profile

usage: logging_tox_savefile.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT]
                               [--command {info,decrypt,nodes}]
                               [--indent INDENT]
                               [--info {info,repr,yaml,json,pprint}]
                               [--nodes {select_tcp,select_udp,select_version,nmap_tcp,nmap_udp}]
                               [--download_nodes_url DOWNLOAD_NODES_URL]
                               [profile]

Positional arguments:

  profile               tox profile file - may be encrypted

Optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --command {info,decrypt,nodes}
                        Action command - default: info
  --output OUTPUT       Destination for info/decrypt/nodes - defaults to stdout
  --info {info,repr,yaml,json,pprint}
                        Format for info command
  --nodes {select_tcp,select_udp,select_version,nmap_tcp,nmap_udp}
                        Action for nodes command (requires jq)
  --indent INDENT       Indent for yaml/json/pprint
  --download_nodes_url DOWNLOAD_NODES_URL

Requirements

If you want to read encrypted profiles, you need to download toxygen to deal with encrypted tox files, from: https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen_wrapper Just put the toxygen/toxygen directory on your PYTHONPATH You also need to link your libtoxcore.so and libtoxav.so and libtoxencryptsave.so into wrapper/../libs/ Link all 3 from libtoxcore.so files if you have only libtoxcore.so

If you want to read the GROUPS section, you need Python msgpack: https://pypi.org/project/msgpack/

If you want to write in YAML, you need Python yaml: https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/

If you have coloredlogs installed it will make use of it: https://pypi.org/project/coloredlogs/

Future Directions

Because it's written in Python it is easy to extend to, for example, rekeying a profile when copying a profile to a new device: https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/tox_profile/wiki/MultiDevice-Announcements-POC

There is a copy of the Tox spec in the repo - it is missing any description of the groups section.