Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Add-on Lua code for file system operations?

["hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx" <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is if you write a plugin for others to use, requiring them to compile code is a high bar to expect.  So if it's more than just another pure lua lib which doesn't need c-code to be compiled, as a file/dir accessor would need, it's tough. :(

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On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Tony Trinh <tony19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Guy Harris wrote:
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Should we either bundle the LuaFileSystem stuff, at least on platforms where we bundle Lua with Wireshark rather than relying on the OS to have it as a package (I guess the packager could make the appropriate Wireshark package depend on the LuaFileSystem package, if one exists), or do our own Lua extensions using the wsutil routines?
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IMHO, that's beyond the scope of the Wireshark Lua API, which should only provide APIs specific to Wireshark functionality that cannot be [easily] accomplished with third party libraries (which are plentiful). In this case, portable filesystem calls can be achieved with Penlight [1]. Regarding the specific directory-creation example you cited, use pl.dir [2].

[1] http://stevedonovan.github.io/Penlight/api/index.html

[2] http://stevedonovan.github.io/Penlight/api/modules/pl.dir.html#makepath

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