Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Writing python dissectors for Wireshark

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks interesting. I haven't been able to get it to build on my Linux
box yet, but I've hit a few minor issues that are pretty trivial to
take care of:
- You have unnecessary trailing slashes in your Makefile.common -
specifically lines 31 and 36 can't have trailing slashes or autofoo
gets confused.
- You seem to be shipping a Makefile.in instead of a Makefile.am - the
former is typically generated by the latter, not the other way around.
- Functions taking no arguments must have their argument list
specified as void, not left blank, ie function(void) instead of
function(). This causes problems with init_pyreshark and
handoff_pyreshark. Note that this applies to the definition in the .c
file as well as the declaration in the .h file.

I also ran into http://bugs.python.org/issue896330 but that's not your fault :)

With a little bit of hacking I managed to get it to run through GCC at
least. That spit out the following list of warnings-treated-as-errors:

pyreshark.c: In function 'init_pyreshark':
pyreshark.c:60:5: error: passing argument 2 of 'PyFile_FromString'
discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror]
In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:108:0,
                 from pyreshark.c:32:
/usr/include/python2.7/fileobject.h:40:24: note: expected 'char *' but
argument is of type 'const char *'
pyreshark.c: In function 'add_tree_item':
pyreshark.c:128:58: error: unused parameter 'pinfo' [-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c: In function 'add_text_item':
pyreshark.c:136:5: error: format not a string literal and no format
arguments [-Werror=format-security]
pyreshark.c:134:58: error: unused parameter 'pinfo' [-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c: In function 'push_tree':
pyreshark.c:140:54: error: unused parameter 'pinfo' [-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c: In function 'pop_tree':
pyreshark.c:151:53: error: unused parameter 'pinfo' [-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c: In function 'advance_offset':
pyreshark.c:161:59: error: unused parameter 'pinfo' [-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c: In function 'set_column_text':
pyreshark.c:172:33: error: unused parameter 'tvb_and_tree'
[-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c:172:72: error: unused parameter 'p_offset'
[-Werror=unused-parameter]
pyreshark.c: At top level:
pyreshark.c:43:13: error: 'proto_dummy_pyreshark' defined but not used
[-Werror=unused-variable]

Hope this helps,
Evan

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Eshed Shaham <ashdnazg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I recently coded a plugin for wireshark which is actually a framework for
> allowing new dissectors to be written in python.
> Unlike the unused python bindings in Wireshark's source, my plugin hides
> Wireshark's interface and provides a more "pythonic" one to the developer.
> I'm already using it for some time, and adding new features every now and
> then. Generally it can be quite useful if you don't like lua (or maybe even
> if you do...).
>
> Feel free to grab the code or precompiled Windows binaries from google code:
> http://code.google.com/p/pyreshark/
> There are also some helpful wiki pages there.
>
> Do note that I haven't tried compiling it on anything that isn't Windows, I
> believe the code might need some porting before it can be built for other
> OS's.
>
> Feedback of any kind is welcome,
> Eshed
>
>
>
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