Re: Lua Dissector <lua fake item>

[Matthew Parlane <parlane () gmail com>]

I do <_<

That will be it, thanks.

I had enabled it because I was trying to find Asterix on the stable release
and assumed it showed hidden protocols or protocol settings :\

Thanks for your time!
Sorry :(

Matthew Parlane


On 4 April 2014 16:52, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan () oracle com> wrote:

> Do you have the "Display hidden protocol items" enabled in your Protocol
> preferences for some reason? That would probably cause that "fake lua item"
> to be displayed.
>
> -hadriel
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:46 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan () oracle com>
> wrote:
>
> > Doesn't happen for me, on Windows-XP (sorry I don't have a newer windows
> to try it on right now - my main machine's a Mac).
> > If you can't show your real script, can you try downloading the
> "dissector.lua" one on the script examples wiki page, along with the
> "dns_port.pcap" file, and try those to see if you see the same thing with
> that?
> > The examples page is here:
> >
> > http://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua/Examples
> >
> > ...and the first section of that page is labeled "A dissector tutorial
> script", with the download link for "dissector.lua" and a few paragraphs
> later the link for "dns_port.pcap".
> > -hadriel
> >
> > On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Matthew Parlane <parlane () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey everyone,
> > >
> > > I grabbed the latest Wireshark-win64-1.11.3-2224-gdf52f81.exe install.
> > >
> > > Made a lua script for decoding a simple protocol header and I am
> getting:
> > > User Datagram Protocol
> > > <lua fake item>
> > > Blah Protocol
> > >
> > > Basically my lua is
> > >
> > >
> > >    local p_blah = Proto("blah","Blah Protocol");
> > >    blah.fields = {... }
> > >    function p_blah.dissector(buf, pinfo, root)
> > >      local t = root:add(p_blah, buf(0,BLAH_HEADER_SIZE))
> > >      t:add(f_item1, buf(0,4))
> > >      -- root:set_text("What?")
> > >    end
> > >
> > > Now if I do the root:set_text("What?"), it changes from <lua fake item>
> to <Text item>
> > > User Datagram Protocol
> > > <Text item>
> > > Blah Protocol
> > >
> > >
> > > The Blah protocol decodes perfectly, so that's fine. Just curious how
> to correctly add the nodes so that it doesn't give this extra row of fake
> lua ?
> > > p.s. Sorry on light details, I can't share the specs.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Matthew Parlane
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