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Re: Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support?
From: Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:07:43 +0100
Thanks for the quick answer! I'm glad to hear that it's just because of restructuring that the links went missing! I'll have a look at it all today, thanks for fixing the links! Regards Stephan Am 13.01.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Hadriel Kaplan:
There is still active development. The docs, on the other hand, appear to have some issues, because there were two big changes in the past several months: 1) the LUA stuff was moved from the User's Guide to the Developer's Guide 2) the documentation system for Lua was changed from perl->XML->HTML to perl->AsciiDoc->HTML Links to the docs got a bit screwed up due to (1) above, so some links will be dead until we get notified of them. (as you just did :) I think what happened with link [3], which is of Chapter 10.4, is that the subsequent Chapters 10.6-10.18 used to be under/within Chapter 10.4 - i.e., they were Chapters 10.4.1-10.4.12 or whatever. That probably got screwed up due to (2) above. Although personally I kind of like the new structure, and Chapter 10.4 should probably just be deleted since it's now one sentence. -hadriel On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan () gmail com> wrote:Hey guys, I'm trying to write a dissector in Wireshark and want to use LUA for it. While trying to look for some documentation on how to get started, I got "mixed signals" on how much support there is for LUA within the wireshark community: On the plus side: There was this talk from Sharkfest '14 titled "Old & busted: C-code New-hotness: Lua", which puts LUA in a pretty good light for dissectors and also noted active developement on it in 1.11 and 1.12. But: There seems to be a lack of documentation, for example, the "Wireshark LUA API Reference Manual"[1] linked in the Wireshark Wiki on the LuaAPI page[2] is a 404, and the chapter[3] on LUA in the "Wireshark Developer's Guide"[4] is also non-existant. So after all, I wanted to know: Is LUA going to be supported in the future? Maybe even better than now? Or is it kind of deprecated, and not much used? As I said, I feel the signals are kind of mixed in this. Regards, Stephan ------LINKS-------- [1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm.html [2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/LuaAPI [3] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html [4] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/index.html ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support? Stephan Arndt (Jan 13)
- Re: Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support? Hadriel Kaplan (Jan 13)
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- Re: Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support? Hadriel Kaplan (Jan 13)
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- Re: Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support? Hadriel Kaplan (Jan 13)