> On 16 May 2023, at 18:27, jayrturne...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have a dissector. I dissect the content as delimited text. Sometimes the > textual content has further meaning, but I only want to dissect it in further > detail on a packet by packet basis and only if the user requests it on a > specific packet. > > The reason is that the detailed dissection requires extra information to be > loaded and extra dissection processing. Is there any mechanism to expand a > section only when requested? A trivial example:
One way to achieve this would be to use the C dissector only for the general dissection and then use a Lua script to create the detailed dissection. I'm not 100% sure, but I assume it would be possible to have it register itself under tools. I do not think you can add extra fields this way, but it sounds like that might not be needed anyways, just a further detailed display of data in the packet. Just an idea... Cheers, Sake
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