Hi Tamas,
Check out the Wireshark dissector generator:
http://www.protomatics.com/wireshark_disector.html
Full spec and examples of TSN.1 can be found at:
http://www.protomatics.com/TSN1_Spec.pdf
Justin
--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Tamas Somogyi <tsomogyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Tamas Somogyi <tsomogyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Dissector from metafile?
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 3:52 AM
> 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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