[ethereal-dev] Edit:Protocols...

[Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Laurent Deniel wrote:
> 
>   Added files:
>     gtk                  proto_dlg.c proto_dlg.h
>   Log:
>   Add the "Edit:Protocols..." feature which currently only implements
>   the following:
> 
>   It is now possible to enable/disable a particular protocol decoding
>   (i.e. the protocol dissector is void or not). When a protocol
>   is disabled, it is displayed as Data and of course, all linked
>   sub-protocols are disabled as well.
> 
>   Disabling a protocol could be interesting:
> 
>   - in case of buggy dissectors
>   - in case of wrong heuristics
>   - for performance reasons
>   - to decode the data as another protocol (TODO)
> 
>   Currently (if I am not wrong), all dissectors but NFS can be disabled
>   (and dissectors that do not register protocols :-)
> 
>   I do not like the way the RPC sub-dissectors are disabled (in the
>   sub-dissectors) since this could be done in the RPC dissector itself,
>   knowing the sub-protocol hfinfo entry (this is why, I've not modified
>   the NFS one yet).
> 
>   Two functions are added in proto.c :
> 
>   gboolean proto_is_protocol_enabled(int n);
>   void proto_set_decoding(int n, gboolean enabled);
> 
>   and two MACROs which can be used in dissectors:
> 
>   OLD_CHECK_DISPLAY_AS_DATA(index, pd, offset, fd, tree)
>   CHECK_DISPLAY_AS_DATA(index, tvb, pinfo, tree)
> 
>   See also the XXX in proto_dlg.c and proto.c around the new functions.
> 

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