Re: Add-on Lua code for file system operations?

[Tony Trinh <tony19 () gmail com>]

> *Guy Harris wrote:*
> ...
> Should we either bundle the LuaFileSystem stuff, at least on platforms
> where we bundle Lua with Wireshark rather than relying on the OS to have it
> as a package (I guess the packager could make the appropriate Wireshark
> package depend on the LuaFileSystem package, if one exists), or do our own
> Lua extensions using the wsutil routines?
> ...


IMHO, that's beyond the scope of the Wireshark Lua API, which should only
provide APIs specific to Wireshark functionality that cannot be [easily]
accomplished with third party libraries (which are plentiful). In this
case, portable filesystem calls can be achieved with Penlight [1].
Regarding the specific directory-creation example you cited, use pl.dir [2].

[1] http://stevedonovan.github.io/Penlight/api/index.html
[2] http://stevedonovan.github.io/Penlight/api/modules/pl.dir.html#makepath

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