Wireshark · Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Lua, all_field_infos

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Hello,

I'm trying to get the protocol tree while in a listener packet function.
I managed to figure out how to use all_field_infos (with my minimal Lua
knowledge and lacking documentation of the function):

-- Get a table of fields
fields = { all_fields_infos() }

-- Print the name of every field
for i, field in ipairs(fields) do
    print("name: ", field.name)
end


Now, this works but it only returns the top layer of the protocol tree,
and I can't figure out how to get further into the tree.

I wasn't able to figure it about by looking at the wireshark source
code.


Since many posts I found online about this function were either
unanswered or dismissed somehow, I have to ask if this was even intended
to be useful.


Thanks


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