#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2015, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved.

# See LICENSE.txt for complete terms.

"""

Description: Round-trip example. This script takes a STIX instance document from XML to

a binding object, then to a api object and then to a dictionary. That dictionary is then

converted back into an api object, which is then used to generate an XML document.

"""

# stdlib

from pprint import pprint

# python-stix

from stix.core import STIXPackage

def main():

FILENAME = 'sample.xml'

# Parse input file

stix_package = STIXPackage.from_xml(FILENAME)

# Convert STIXPackage to a Python dictionary via the to_dict() method.

stix_dict = stix_package.to_dict()

# Print the dictionary!

pprint(stix_dict)

# Convert the first STIXPackage dictionary into another STIXPackage via

# the from_dict() method.

stix_package_two = STIXPackage.from_dict(stix_dict)

# Serialize the new STIXPackage object to XML

xml = stix_package_two.to_xml()

# Print the XML!

print(xml)

if __name__ == '__main__':

main()