[Abhik Sarkar <sarkar.abhik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or outside of the "official" Wireshark development, WSGD (http://wsgd.free.fr/) attempts to do what you are describing.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

You may want to look at Lua for that.

Thanx,
Jaap

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On 17 apr 2009, at 12:52, "Tamas Somogyi" <tsomogyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new in Wireshark development; I've just coded my first dissector
> for
> one of our company-specific protocols, and I'm going to write the
> next.
>
> However my impression is, that simple protocols might be described
> pretty well by structured texts/files (e.g. XML files), because most
> of
> my code is just about formatting the data (texts, values, etc.) and
> defining the tree structure.
> Defining protocol dissectors in text metafiles for Wireshark would
> have
> many advantages: no need for installing the whole development
> environment for adding just a simple protocol, moreover it would be no
> software development work any more to add protocol to Wireshark.
>
> Is there any existing possibility to define dissector from meta-file
> instead of coding, or is there any ongoing development in this
> direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Tamas
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