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IDE with code completion - to write wireshark plugins

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Hi at all,

i want to create some wireshark plugins with lua. Up to now i have written a dissector and have reimplemented some examples from the wiki - successfully. I used "ZeroBrane Studio as IDE for development". It's ok, but there is no code completion with possible values or functions...

My question: - Is there any IDE to develop lua plugins for wireshark with code completion ? If yes, which do you use ?

I'm not sure, because lua is a script language.

Hope for some answers. Thanks at all.

Wayne

asked 10 May '16, 08:27

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I haven't used it (I generally don't use IDEs) but I know that Eclipse has a Lua plugin that supports most of what you'd expect but, of course, it won't know about/support auto-completion for Wireshark's Lua APIs. (It's not clear to me, from your question, whether you're specifically looking for auto-completion for Wireshark's APIs or Lua in general.)

It's probably possible to extend that plugin to support Wireshark's APIs but I don't know how hard it would be.

answered 10 May '16, 11:11

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