TruxtonFileIO newevent

This create new event from a file in Truxton. It automatically associates the parent file and media identifiers used in the Event table.

Syntax

object newevent();

Return value

An event object

Sample

import truxton
from datetime import datetime
from calendar import timegm

EPOCH_AS_FILETIME = 116444736000000000
HUNDREDS_OF_NANOSECONDS = 10000000

def date_to_filetime(dt):
  return EPOCH_AS_FILETIME + (timegm(dt.timetuple()) * HUNDREDS_OF_NANOSECONDS)

def main():
  t = truxton.create()
  file = t.getfileid("5ec2a123-74d6-5da7-0653-4e6800000000")

  event = file.newevent()

  event.title = "Python Executed"
  event.description = "Created from Python!"
  event.type = truxton.EVENT_TYPE_ADDED_BY_ANALYST
  event.start = date_to_filetime(datetime.utcnow())

  if event.save() is True:
    print( "New event saved as id " + event.id)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  sys.exit(main())