Hi everyone,
I am currently developping a dissector. And I have some basic questions.
My first one would be: how do I get the header_field_info structure
instance from its structure id? Here is what I'm trying to achieve:
static int hf_instr_id = -1;
[...]
{ &hf_instr_id,
{ "Instrument Identifier", "my_proto.instr_id", FT_UINT64,
BASE_DEC, NULL, 0x00,
"[...]", HFILL }
},
[...]
ptvcursor_add(cursor, hf_instr_id, 8, ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN);
In the line just above I'd like to replace the length (which is 8) by
something roughly looking like that:
int len = ftype_len(gap_hfinfo.hfi[xxx]->type);
ptvcursor_add(cursor, hf_instr_id, len, ENC_LITTLE_ENDIAN);
One of my issue is that gap_hfinfo array (which contains all the
header_fields_info instances) is static to the proto.c file. And I find
no accessors to it.
Is there an actual way that I've overlooked?
Or do I need to keep a pointer to header_field_info structure in the
first place?
Second question: I've took a quick glance at others dissectors.
It looks like every one of them provide their integer fields' size twice:
- in the header_field_info
- and also as a parameter of ptvcursor_add()/proto_tree_add_item().
Is there a reason for doing that? Historical?
Regards
Yves BAUMES
