Hello List,
this is a request for comments.
I wanted to add half a dozen -d (decode as) options to wireshark and found
that this feature does only exist for tshark and that -d is used by something
else (initial display filter).
My first idea was do rename -d on wireshark to something else and copy the tshark
-d to wireshark. Then I didn't like the idea of copying code from tshark to
wireshark. I'm not a big fan of code duplication and the inconsistencies between
the command line options between the sharks is annoying.
What about having a shared command line parsing code for all the sharks?
Options fall into two categories:
- global options that are available to all the tools and
- gui options are specific to a particular gui. Gui options might
be changed to -g<gui-specific-option-name> (or any other inconvenient
letter). They would have the -g stripped and passed to a gui specific
parser.
This would have the side effect of making all core features available to
all sharks (like: is there a reason why I can either have the summary line
in tshark or the detailed decoding but not both and the decode as).
Comments on this?
Which other inconsistencies are there?
Ciao
Jörg
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Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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