Can emba generate scan report in JSON instead of HTML ?

[jni2000]

Dear community

I am new to this great emba tool. I understand that this tool will generate a whole set of nice HTML scan report, and also can generate JSON SBOMs. I am wondering if the tool can generate the scan report in JSON instead of HTML ?

Thanks

[m-1-k-3]

Hi James,

you already got the main logging mechanisms:

• First it is plain text in the log directory,
• If enabled EMBA also generates the HTML report
• JSON and further formats for SBOM
• Some modules also log in CSV format
• I think there is some old and deprected greppable logging which probably was never used and should be ripped of EMBA soon

We already thought about JSON format but currently we have not enough resources to handle this. The next step should be to finish the csv logging mechanism in every module. Afterwards, we have all data from every module collected and it will be quite simple to also implement some log_json functionality.

As usual you are welcome to contribute :)

Best,
Mike

[jni2000]

Sure, I will. But the PR was marked as "merged".

[m-1-k-3]

Yea we already merged it into the master ...

[jni2000]

Sorry for missing the task. We analyzed the current Txt output files and found that most of them follow some conversions with some exceptions. If we can unify the conversion and adjust the module outputs, a separate tool can easily convert them into well-formatted JSON. what do you think?

[m-1-k-3]

As mentioned before I would not recommend parsing the text output. Instead I would recommend to check the modules cve-output mechanism and add the same for json. I have implemented this for the S12 module here Please check it and give feedback.