Re: Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support?

[Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan () gmail com>]

Thanks for the quick answer! I'm glad to hear that it's just because of
restructuring that the links went missing!

I'll have a look at it all today, thanks for fixing the links!

Regards

Stephan

Am 13.01.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Hadriel Kaplan:
> There is still active development.
>
> The docs, on the other hand, appear to have some issues, because there were two big changes in the past several 
> months:
> 1) the LUA stuff was moved from the User's Guide to the Developer's Guide
> 2) the documentation system for Lua was changed from perl->XML->HTML to perl->AsciiDoc->HTML
>
> Links to the docs got a bit screwed up due to (1) above, so some links will be dead until we get notified of them. 
> (as you just did :)
>
> I think what happened with link [3], which is of Chapter 10.4, is that the subsequent Chapters 10.6-10.18 used to be 
> under/within Chapter 10.4 - i.e., they were Chapters 10.4.1-10.4.12 or whatever. That probably got screwed up due to 
> (2) above. Although personally I kind of like the new structure, and Chapter 10.4 should probably just be deleted 
> since it's now one sentence.
>
> -hadriel
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I'm trying to write a dissector in Wireshark and want to use LUA for it.
> > While trying to look for some documentation on how to get started, I got
> > "mixed signals" on how much support there is for LUA within the
> > wireshark community:
> >
> > On the plus side:
> >
> > There was this talk from Sharkfest '14 titled "Old & busted: C-code
> > New-hotness: Lua", which puts LUA in a pretty good light for dissectors
> > and also noted active developement on it in 1.11 and 1.12.
> >
> > But:
> >
> > There seems to be a lack of documentation, for example, the "Wireshark
> > LUA API Reference Manual"[1] linked in the Wireshark Wiki on the LuaAPI
> > page[2] is a 404, and the chapter[3] on LUA in the "Wireshark
> > Developer's Guide"[4] is also non-existant.
> >
> >
> > So after all, I wanted to know:
> >
> > Is LUA going to be supported in the future? Maybe even better than now?
> > Or is it kind of deprecated, and not much used? As I said, I feel the
> > signals are kind of mixed in this.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stephan
> >
> >
> > ------LINKS--------
> > [1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm.html
> > [2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/LuaAPI
> > [3] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html
> > [4] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/index.html
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