Hi, You may want to look at Lua for that.
Thanx, Jaap Sent from my iPhone On 17 apr 2009, at 12:52, "Tamas Somogyi" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new in Wireshark development; I've just coded my first dissector > for > one of our company-specific protocols, and I'm going to write the > next. > > However my impression is, that simple protocols might be described > pretty well by structured texts/files (e.g. XML files), because most > of > my code is just about formatting the data (texts, values, etc.) and > defining the tree structure. > Defining protocol dissectors in text metafiles for Wireshark would > have > many advantages: no need for installing the whole development > environment for adding just a simple protocol, moreover it would be no > software development work any more to add protocol to Wireshark. > > Is there any existing possibility to define dissector from meta-file > instead of coding, or is there any ongoing development in this > direction? > > Thanks, > Tamas > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
