[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 07/29/14 15:39, darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:18:18PM +0200, darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:33:57PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote:

I'm confused about this block in TRY_TO_FAKE_THIS_ITEM_OR_FREE

         if (!(PTREE_DATA(tree)->visible)) { \
                 if (PTREE_FINFO(tree)) { \ ### [1] Sake workaround for some bugs (details: 00c05ed3f)
                         if ((hfinfo->ref_type != HF_REF_TYPE_DIRECT) \
                             && (hfinfo->type != FT_PROTOCOL || \
                                 PTREE_DATA(tree)->fake_protocols)) { \
                                 free_block; \
                                 /* just return tree back to the caller */\
                                 return tree; \

If tree is not visible (and fake_protocols is set, which seems to be the
default), we return the tree itself.

proto_item *it = proto_tree_add_text(tree, tvb, 0, -1, "foobar");

If tree!=NULL && !(PTREE_DATA(tree)->visible) the return value it==tree
Why does this make sense?

Ok, what value you propose to return instead of 'tree'?

  <strike>c/ NULL</strike> (you cannot cause it will make filtering stop working).

Ah! We could do if (it == NULL) { it = tree; } when creating subtree, for leaf we don't need a fix.
It still lot of work to do, but I'm +0.5 for it ;-)

Going back to Martin's initial problem...

However, I don't quite understand why for tree!=NULL but not visible,
proto_tree_add_text() returns tree. I can see this in the code, we call
TRY_TO_FAKE_THIS_ITEM(), which returns the tree itself when it's not
visible. But what sense does this make for the caller?

I think it's because while proto_trees are allowed to be NULL, we don't want (or the API is not ready for) proto_items to be NULL.  (IOW that "return tree" quoted above is (ab)using the fact that a proto_item is a proto_tree.)


Does this mean that this code in add_subtree_format() should be setting *tree_item to 'tree' (instead of NULL) here:

    /* Make sure pi is initialized in case TRY_TO_FAKE_THIS_ITEM bails */
        if (tree_item != NULL)
                *tree_item = NULL;

That's my understanding, to restore the old behaviour at least for now until we settle how it should really behave.