Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6357] Lua scripting: all_field_infos() broken within tap/l

Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:45:38 +0000

changed bug 6357

What Removed Added
Attachment #10035 Flags   review_for_checkin?

Comment # 2 on bug 6357 from
Created attachment 10035 [details]
Adds a flag to Listener.new() and register_postdissector() to make C-side
dissectors populate all fields.

As discussed on the ask wireshark site here:

http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/4678/lua-listener-dynamic-fields

one really should expect that all_field_infos() provides all field infos.
However, since this is a performance issue, I've attached a patch which fixes
this but only if the call to Listener.new() or register_postdissector()
includes a boolean true argument to make the C-side dissectors populate all the
field infos.  When this flag is passed in, all_field_infos() provides all the
field infos; when it's not set, it defaults to false and all_field_infos() only
returns the field infos that the C-side dissectors happened to populate each
time, as is done today.


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