["Bahaa Naamneh" <b.naamneh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stig,

I wrote a patch that checks if the string being typed is a beginning of a protocol name, and if it so, then it calls the auto-complete functionality.

It works as I describe in my previous email, it checks if the string being typed is a protocol name by checking if it is preceded by a logical operation (or, and, not, xor) or the string we want to auto-complete is located at the beginning of the display filter.

The problem of logical operation (and, or) followed by "not" (e.g: exp1 and not exp2) can't be solved programmatically since we have no way to predict whether the user is going to type "not" or some protocol that starts with "n" letter.

Similarly, we can't predict whether the user is going to begin typing a display filter that starts with the logical operation "not" (not exp1) or starts with a protocol that starts with the letter "n".


patch file is attached.

- Bahaa

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Bahaa Naamneh <b.naamneh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

correction: i missed the fact that logical operation can be also preceded by other logical operation! :), so checking whether the string is preceded by logical operation won't help.

(tcp.flags.push==1) and not(tcp.flags.ack==0)

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Bahaa Naamneh <b.naamneh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I think trying to figure out if the user is typing a protocol name could be easier since protocol name can only comes either at the beginning of the display filter or after logical Operation.

Display Filter syntax:
[Protocol].[String1].[String2] [Comparison operator] [Value] [Logical Operations] [Other _expression_]

So you could check whether the string you are trying to auto-complete is a protocol name or not by checking if the protocol name is preceded by logical operation or located at the beginning of the display filter.
and of course, parentheses should be taken into account.


- Bahaa

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Stig Bjørlykke <stig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi.

I have just committed a patch which enables autocomplete and
autocompletion list of protocol names in the filter entry.  But this
has some side effects, because it currently also autocompletes
operators (when typing "and" or "or") and values (typing something
like "ip.tos.precedence > 3" will popup "3comxns").

I don't know how to fix this yet, but I leave the code in so more
people can try the feature and maybe fix this issue?  I guess we could
try figure out if the user is typing an operator or a value.

Or maybe just add a preference value (turn on/off) and document this behavior?

--
Stig Bjørlykke
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