On Dec 22, 2016, at 4:29 PM, Chris Brandson <[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears to be impossible to use external tools such as pyshark to extract 
> field information from many of the fields in a ZigBee packet because many of 
> the abbrev fields of the hf_register_info entries for the ZigBee dissectors 
> more than one “.” .

If pyshark - or any other tool - assumes that there's a two-level name space 
for fields, it's making an incorrect assumption, and needs to be fixed to allow 
an arbitrary number of levels of hierarchy.  Protocol xxx might have a 
structured field called yyy, containing subfields, some of which themselves 
might be structured, so you might have a field named xxx.yyy.zzz.www, which is 
the www field of the zzz structured subfield of the yyy structured field of 
protocol xxx.

This is far from limited to the ZigBee dissector.
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