from libnmap.parser import NmapParser

from libnmap.reportjson import ReportDecoder, ReportEncoder

import json

nmap_report_obj = NmapParser.parse_fromfile('libnmap/test/files/1_hosts.xml')

# create a json object from an NmapReport instance

nmap_report_json = json.dumps(nmap_report_obj, cls=ReportEncoder)

print nmap_report_json

# create a NmapReport instance from a json object

nmap_report_obj = json.loads(nmap_report_json, cls=ReportDecoder)

print nmap_report_obj