From 6475ff762c257d92c78967d6621bc7fddc5f5b6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Ricks?= <bjoern.ricks@greenbone.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:35:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add: Allow to convert an XmlCommandElement into bytes

This will allow to transfer an XmlCommandElement and therefore a
XmlCommand over a socket.
---
 gvm/xml.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gvm/xml.py b/gvm/xml.py
index e2b9ae2e3..9d2f65da1 100644
--- a/gvm/xml.py
+++ b/gvm/xml.py
@@ -70,11 +70,17 @@ def append_xml_str(self, xml_text: str) -> None:
         self._element.append(node)
 
     def to_string(self) -> str:
-        return xmltostring(self._element).decode("utf-8")
+        return self.to_bytes().decode("utf-8")
+
+    def to_bytes(self) -> bytes:
+        return xmltostring(self._element)
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
         return self.to_string()
 
+    def __bytes__(self) -> bytes:
+        return self.to_bytes()
+
 
 class XmlCommand(XmlCommandElement):
     def __init__(self, name: str) -> None: