Re: removed functions fast way to find substitutes?

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Semjon
Sent: den 21 november 2014 09:48
To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] removed functions fast way to find substitutes?

> Hello,
>
> I maintain a dissector for a proprietary protocol of my employer and now and then I grab me some current 
> wireshark-sources and check if my dissector code is still compatible which - in recent times- unfortunately often it 
> is >not due to changes in the wireshark lib / API.
>
> So everytime my code fails to compile/link I have to check which functions were removed and which new functions do I 
> have to use now.
> One of my current problems is with
>
> tvb_get_faked_unicode(...)

Google says https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-bugs/201401/msg00446.html :-)

> which isn't available anymore.
> In my Protocol I have some Ascii-encoded String but which comes as two bytes per character. Example:
> {0x0031, 0x0032, 0x0033, 0x0034, 0x0000} in tvb should display in GUI/Tree/PacketList as "1234"
> I used to call:
>
> tvb_get_faked_unicode(NULL,tvb, 20, ((tvb_length(tvb)-20)/2),ENC_BIG_ENDIAN)
>
> and display result as %s in col_append_fstr() or as FT_STRING in proto_tree_add_string().
>
> So could anyone give me a hint, is there a function still available for this type of encoding or do I have to write 
> something.
>
> In general is there a fast/convenient way - other than manually looking through the sources after functions that might 
> do what i want - to check if this function X is now replaced by function Y.
>
> Other examples I need to replace are:
> abs_time_to_ep_str()

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commitdiff;h=237669a35deacbead9346234019c2e50544c8534

> nstime_delta()

Wsutil/nstime.h as this symbol perhaps you need to change your include ?

> Maybe there's some changelog containing this info?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> SemGo

Regards
Anders
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