Version: 1.2.0.0

stix.base Module

Classes

class stix.base.Entity

Base class for all classes in the STIX API.

classmethod dict_from_object(entity_obj)

Convert from object representation to dict representation.

find(id_)

Searches the children of a Entity implementation for an object with an id_ property that matches id_.

classmethod from_dict(d, return_obj=None)

Convert from dict representation to object representation. This should be overriden by a subclass

classmethod from_json(json_doc)

Parses the JSON document json_doc and returns a STIX Entity implementation instance.

Parameters:json_doc – Input JSON representation of a STIX entity. This can be a readable object or a JSON string.
Returns:An implementation of – class:.Entity (e.g., STIXPackage).
classmethod from_obj(obj, return_obj=None)

Create an object from a binding object

classmethod object_from_dict(entity_dict)

Convert from dict representation to object representation.

to_dict()

Converts a STIX Entity implementation into a Python dictionary. This may be overridden by derived classes.

to_obj(return_obj=None, ns_info=None)

Converts an Entity into a binding object.

Note

This needs to be overridden by derived classes.

to_xml(include_namespaces=True, include_schemalocs=False, ns_dict=None, schemaloc_dict=None, pretty=True, auto_namespace=True, encoding='utf-8')

Serializes a Entity instance to an XML string.

The default character encoding is utf-8 and can be set via the encoding parameter. If encoding is None, a unicode string is returned.

Parameters:
  • auto_namespace – Automatically discover and export XML namespaces for a STIX Entity instance.
  • include_namespaces – Export namespace definitions in the output XML. Default is True.
  • include_schemalocs – Export xsi:schemaLocation attribute in the output document. This will attempt to associate namespaces declared in the STIX document with schema locations. If a namespace cannot be resolved to a schemaLocation, a Python warning will be raised. Schemalocations will only be exported if include_namespaces is also True.
  • ns_dict – Dictionary of XML definitions (namespace is key, alias is value) to include in the exported document. This must be passed in if auto_namespace is False.
  • schemaloc_dict – Dictionary of XML namespace: schema location mappings to include in the exported document. These will only be included if auto_namespace is False.
  • pretty – Pretty-print the XML.
  • encoding – The output character encoding. Default is utf-8. If encoding is set to None, a unicode string is returned.
Returns:

An XML string for this Entity instance. Default character encoding is utf-8.

class stix.base.EntityList(*args)

Bases: _abcoll.MutableSequence, stix.base.Entity