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Dfxml report of disk image with fiwalk results in AttributeError

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3/5
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
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Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start in dfxml/fiwalk.py around line 138 and inspect fiwalk_xml_stream together with E01_glob to determine the expected imagefile input type. Reproduce the reported call with a disk image, then add or update a focused regression test. Done means the documented disk-image use case no longer raises AttributeError and the expected invocation is documented.

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Description

I'm trying to use the module to generate dfxml reports of disk images. I can't find any examples of this in either the documentation or in the examples, but after digging a bit into the code I came up with this:

#! /usr/bin/env python3

import os
from dfxml import fiwalk

imageFile = os.path.abspath("1a330188-23d0-11ed-a1cf-3dad24cfc09f.img")
test = fiwalk.fiwalk_xml_stream(imagefile=imageFile)
print(test)

But this results in:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test-fiwalk.py", line 7, in <module>
    test = fiwalk.fiwalk_xml_stream(imagefile=imageFile)
  File "/home/johan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/dfxml/fiwalk.py", line 138, in fiwalk_xml_stream
    p = Popen(cmd + E01_glob(imagefile.name),stdout=PIPE)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'

Not sure if this is some bug, or perhaps I'm just doing something completely wrong here myself? In any case, as this seems one of the most obvious use cases for this software, it would be helpful to provide some documentation or example.

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