Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] library wireshark in ruby
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From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:04:19 -0400
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:44:51AM +0000, diouf karim wrote:
> I'm doing my project of 4th year of university and the theme of this
> project is to realize a network analyser with web interface close to what
> wireshark proposes. So its necessary to mapper the wireshark library in
> the ruby language, that will allow me after to dissector the packets
> captured.
> 
> I have been looking for some manual or documentation about the library on
> the net but no success. After all i decided to join the developpers
> mailing list to post the question and learn about development of
> wireshark library. Is there any manul or documentation , as every
> programming libarary and any ideas are welecome.

Your best bet is probably FFI. You'll need to understand the libwireshark C
API and map it into a Ruby module.

> Thanks in advance
--Greg