Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Trying to write a LUA dissector for wireshark. How's the support?

[Stephan Arndt <arndt.stephan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to write a dissector in Wireshark and want to use LUA for it.
While trying to look for some documentation on how to get started, I got
"mixed signals" on how much support there is for LUA within the
wireshark community:

On the plus side:

There was this talk from Sharkfest '14 titled "Old & busted: C-code
New-hotness: Lua", which puts LUA in a pretty good light for dissectors
and also noted active developement on it in 1.11 and 1.12.

But:

There seems to be a lack of documentation, for example, the "Wireshark
LUA API Reference Manual"[1] linked in the Wireshark Wiki on the LuaAPI
page[2] is a 404, and the chapter[3] on LUA in the "Wireshark
Developer's Guide"[4] is also non-existant.


So after all, I wanted to know:

Is LUA going to be supported in the future? Maybe even better than now?
Or is it kind of deprecated, and not much used? As I said, I feel the
signals are kind of mixed in this.

Regards,

Stephan


------LINKS--------
[1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/wsluarm.html
[2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/LuaAPI
[3] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html
[4] https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/index.html