Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal metadata schema (for plugins )

[Senthil Sundaram <sen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Is there a metadata schema available for Ethereal such that, i can do the 
following?

I should be able to specify my protocol fields using this metadata schema 
in a file. The metadata should also specify how to display the fields in 
Ethereal . The dissection code will be very generic in that it reads the 
metadata file and understands how to parse the message and how to display 
it ( using trees , subtrees and what not). Therefore one could have a 
single plugin with a generic dissection routine, whose behavior varies 
based on the contents of the metadata file. The metadata could be XML or 
any other notation.

Is there any such support right now?

Thanks
Senthil