Renderers: Allow nodes to be turned into dictionaries

volatility3/framework/constants/__init__.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ BANG = "!"
 # We use the SemVer 2.0.0 versioning scheme
 VERSION_MAJOR = 2  # Number of releases of the library with a breaking change
 VERSION_MINOR = 5  # Number of changes that only add to the interface
-VERSION_PATCH = 1  # Number of changes that do not change the interface
+VERSION_PATCH = 2  # Number of changes that do not change the interface
 VERSION_SUFFIX = ""
 
 # TODO: At version 2.0.0, remove the symbol_shift feature

volatility3/framework/renderers/__init__.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import collections
 import collections.abc
 import datetime
 import logging
-from typing import Any, Callable, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar, Union
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar, Union
 
 from volatility3.framework import interfaces
 from volatility3.framework.interfaces import renderers
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ class TreeNode(interfaces.renderers.TreeNode):
             # if isinstance(val, datetime.datetime):
             #     tznaive = val.tzinfo is None or val.tzinfo.utcoffset(val) is None
 
+    def asdict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """Returns the contents of the node as a dictionary"""
+        return self._values._asdict()
+
     @property
     def values(self) -> List[interfaces.renderers.BaseTypes]:
         """Returns the list of values from the particular node, based on column