Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7639] Bluetooth minor enhancement
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:33:03 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7639

--- Comment #59 from Michael Mann <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-09-10 05:33:03 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #58)
> (In reply to comment #49)
> > > I think the pref_decode_by preference structure would be much better suited as
> > > a UAT.  You could also verify the dissector string names within the UAT in case
> > > the user makes a typo. 
> > Ok, I will try, but I do not think that this will be much better then my
> > solution.
> > With your solution there is possibility to verify the dissector string name,
> > but with my solution access to fields is faster.
> The access may be faster, but is probably negligable unless the list is huge. 
> My concern was to not have users create a CSV string (which the UAT was
> designed to prevent), which I think is a bigger hassle than field access when
> the list is huge.

There is also the issue of not polluting the preferences file (see bug 1123)

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