Hi, I am working on a lua plugin to collect tcp stream information. But I am not able to find the API in lua to get the current stream number of frame number. Thanks for any help.
Refer to section 11.2. Obtaining dissection data of the Wireshark Developer's Guide.
Basically, you'll call Field.new(fieldname), where fieldname is the field of interest. In your case, you seem interested in 2 fields, namely frame.number and tcp.stream, so you'd have something like:
local frame_number = Field.new("frame.number")
local stream_index = Field.new("tcp.stream")
From there, you would obtain all values for this field using (). For the frame number and TCP stream index, there is probably only 1 value for each field per packet [at most], so there's likely no need to worry about multiple values here. After that, you can grab the information you want from it. For example:
function foo.dissector(tvbuf, pinfo, tree)
local frame_num_ex = frame_number()
local stream_idx_ex = stream_index()
# Open a Lua Console to see the value printed.
print("frame number: " .. frame_num_ex.value)
if stream_idx_ex then
print("TCP stream index: " .. stream_idx_ex.value)
end
end
Refer to the Wireshark Developer's Guide and to Wireshark Lua and related wiki pages for more information and for plenty of examples.
It's unclear to me what you're asking for. The code I provided will give you the stream index for the associated frame and vice versa. You can also grab the current frame number from the pinfo data, if that helps? For example:
print("pinfo.number = " .. pinfo.number)
let me rephrase the question
Perhaps you should ask it as a separate question. This site is best thought of as a "crowdsourced FAQ", so that the answers to a question can be used to help other users with the same question find the answer without having to ask a question. This answer answers "how do I get the frame number of the current frame in a Lua dissector. Your new question would answer "how do I get the frame number of the current frame in a Lua menu item".
Asked: 2020-03-17 23:58:39 +0000
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