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Use Wireshark I/O Graph to display decoded JSON field value

asked 2021-04-19 10:11:59 +0000

Ganindu gravatar image

updated 2021-04-19 13:09:26 +0000

I have a UDP stream of data coming from a driver, The data is in JSON format:

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I want to use the highlighted Number field and plot the value.

I believe the IO graphs are capable of doing this given that I can set the correct "Y axis" and the "Y Field". I tried right clicking on the field to get a filter string the result of "copy as filter" is frame[111:22] == 22:50:4d:32:35:4d:61:73:73:50:65:72:4d:33:22:3a:09:31:32:2e:32:38 and I/O graphs doesn't seem to like that.

Can you please help me fix this?

I've asked on StackOverflow as well (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...)

Cheers, Ganindu

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answered 2021-04-19 14:02:03 +0000

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json.value.number is a string field:
Display Filter Reference: JavaScript Object Notation

FIELD NAME             DESCRIPTION       TYPE                  VERSIONS
json.value.number   Number value     Character string     1.6.0 to 3.4.4

You might look at exporting it with tshark then graphing in a different program

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Hi Chuck, thanks, I think inside the proverbial wire (where pcap does the intercepting) it's a string. but shouldn't that be understood as a number after going through the Wireshark's JSON parser?

tshark seems interesting but I was hoping that there is a plotting tool within wireshark that would do the job. for me; in this particular case it isn't really a problem because I can easily plot with a simple python script with a JSON parser and matplotlib.

I was just wondering because these kind of tools exist (with i.e. CAN tools) and are quite handy sometimes.

Cheers

Ganindu gravatar imageGanindu ( 2021-04-20 07:47:56 +0000 )edit

You could open an enhancement request.

Based on these comments in packet-json.c, the field type was questioned:

static header_field_info hfi_json_value_number JSON_HFI_INIT = /* FT_DOUBLE/ FT_INT64? */
    { "Number value", "json.value.number", FT_STRING, BASE_NONE, NULL, 0x00, "JSON number value", HFILL };


(not tested) You might try adding a Lua dissector to create a new numeric field and feed that to IO graph.

Chuckc gravatar imageChuckc ( 2021-04-20 16:19:37 +0000 )edit

Hi Chuck, Thanks for the answer. I fixed my problem by making a custom plotter but I think This will be a cool feature for wireshark. Will be a super handy tool.

Ganindu gravatar imageGanindu ( 2021-04-21 15:12:42 +0000 )edit

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