Comment # 5
on bug 8453
from Hadriel Kaplan
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > [*] I'm adding the ability for Lua to be useable for file format
> > reading/writing - i.e., let you create custom wtap reader/writer purely in a
> > Lua plugin.
> Would that include solving
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7465?
Nope, although I hadn't seen that bug before. But anyway no, as far as I can
tell the existing wslua dumper stuff lets you make wireshark save a packet into
a file but only of an existing file format such as pcap/pcapng/etc.; and
there's no tie-in with the user doing File->Save As or File->Export menu items
- the Lua plugin just dumps to a file during its execution while tapping or
dissecting.
What I'm talking about is literally letting a Lua plugin register a new wtap
file format, letting it handle the open/read/write routines for itself similar
to existing file format reader/writers do when called upon by file_access.c,
etc. So that I could for example write a plugin that can read some vendor's
proprietary file format, or write out to it.
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