Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Expert Analysis API

[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Guy Harris wrote:
(snip)
> I'd been thinking about this as a way of simplifying the construction of
> statistics tables; the statistics-table tap would construct a data
> structure consisting of
>
> 	1) an array of column information, giving column names and data
> 	   formats (unsigned integer, floating-point, string, network
> 	   address, etc.)
>
> and
>
> 	2) an array of rows, each of which is an array of column values.
>
> Lars Roland (as I remember; my apologies to Lars Ruoff if it was him)
> has also been thinking about more general mechanisms of that sort.
You are right. So far I have created a small api for (t)ethereal to 
access  a structure with

        1) an array of column information (column name, size of the 		 
   longest string in it)

	2) an array of rows containing strings.

I haven't implemented support for different data formats, I just used 
strings.

Unfortunately the code is a little bit out of date. I haven't done 
anything on this since February. I will refresh the code and post it on 
this list so others can carry on.

Regards,

Lars