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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
