Or outside of the "official" Wireshark development, WSGD ( http://wsgd.free.fr/) attempts to do what you are describing.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keu...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > You may want to look at Lua for that. > > Thanx, > Jaap > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 apr 2009, at 12:52, "Tamas Somogyi" <tsomo...@ndcinfrared.co.uk> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new in Wireshark development; I've just coded my first dissector > > for > > one of our company-specific protocols, and I'm going to write the > > next. > > > > However my impression is, that simple protocols might be described > > pretty well by structured texts/files (e.g. XML files), because most > > of > > my code is just about formatting the data (texts, values, etc.) and > > defining the tree structure. > > Defining protocol dissectors in text metafiles for Wireshark would > > have > > many advantages: no need for installing the whole development > > environment for adding just a simple protocol, moreover it would be no > > software development work any more to add protocol to Wireshark. > > > > Is there any existing possibility to define dissector from meta-file > > instead of coding, or is there any ongoing development in this > > direction? > > > > Thanks, > > Tamas > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org > ?subject=unsubscribe > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe >
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