Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5749] Improve Connection Manager and Connection Configurat
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5749
--- Comment #8 from Michael Mann <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-27 19:28:49 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Some comments:
> Why all the proto_tree_add_text()s? Shouldn't those be filterable fields
> (added with proto_tree_add_item())? As it says in README.developer,
> proto_tree_add_text() should normally be avoided.
I don't think the intent was to make all of the fields filterable, which is why
proto_tree_add_text() was used.
> Shouldn't some of this dissection be broken down into subroutines? There are
> now three 700+ line functions. Then again, use of add_item() may shorten those
> functions substantially... This would also help eliminate the need to indent
> code that is adding things to a subtree. That is, you shouldn't have to resort
> to that to make the code readable.
> Also: doing:
> if (tvb_get_guint8(tvb, offset) == XXX)
> [...]
> else if (tvb_get_guint8(tvb, offset) == YYY)
> [...]
> else if (tvb_get_guint8(tvb_offset) == ZZZ)
> would be better done with a variable or maybe even another switch statement.
> (I suppose the compiler will be smart enough to put it in a variable for you,
> but it still could be more readable.)
In my defense, I was keeping with the "coding style" of the dissector. The
protocol itself is fairly large (and the current dissector has only scratched
the surface). I agree with your suggestions, but didn't want to "restyle" the
dissector, as I thought that would have been more difficult to merge.
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