Hi,
Attached you'll find the new release of MATE.
I got my own "developper hands" into it. I personally believe this
takes mate from the prototype phase to the early release stage. I
think this is a good candidate for check-in:
- I've made the code more readable
- I changed the way it's structured (now the configuration sits in a
series of nested structs instead of a group of global hashes)
- overall, I reduced entropy. and made it easily extensible
- I took care of not registering the dissector unless configured, that
way it will not interfere with ethereal when disabled.
As a result of these changes it was easy to add several features to MATE:
- More PDUs per frame (either of the same or more protocols)
- More transports per PDU
- the name of the fields MATE defines are actually imported from the config file
(mate.leg.attr == "calling=123435235" becomes mate.call.calling ==
"12345678")
- I added few options to supress/enable entire branches of the tree
for some classes
- Some preferences has become related to the single Item not for every
Item of the class
- I changed the name of the items (Legs now are Group Of PDUs That's Gops )
- I restored the transformations mechanism although there is much more
I want to do for these
There are things still to be done:
+ I need someone to try to build it as a plugin on Win32
+ there is a design bug in how the groups of PDUs get groupped I will
try to fix it in the next weeks.
+ transformations aren't flexible enough.
+ I will update the wiki page, MATE configuration so far is still
voodoo, needs a real manual, I'm not good with documentation but I
will try to rewrite it.
+ since MATE loads the config before module preferences are set right
now It can load just "./config.mate"
+ does not work with tethereal (I wonder if it would be possible to
get it to work without major changes in )
I still owe the documentation: there's a broken draft at
http://wiki.ethereal.com/Mate I promise I will update in the next few
days while testing it.
I hope you find it useful.
Luis Ontanon
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