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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Lua dissector question

From: Juanjo Martin Carrascosa <juanjo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:09:29 +0100
Wonderful. It works. Thanks Graham!

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:07 PM Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 16:54, Juanjo Martin Carrascosa <juanjo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi dev team,

I am writing a Lua dissector. The 4 bytes in my packet encode a little endian uint32. But the following lines decode it as big endian:

local device_status      = ProtoField.new   ("Device Status", "status.device_status", ftypes.UINT32)
...
tree:add(device_status, tvbuf:range(4,4))

How can I fix this?

Regards,
Juanjo Martin


The endianess is set when adding it to the tree, e.g. tree:add_le(...)  


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