Add capture file reader/writer support for Lua so scripts can implement new capture file formats.

This enables a Lua script to implement a brand new capture file format reader/writer, so that for example one could write a script to read from vendor-specific "logs" of packets, and show them as normal packets in wireshark.

Change-Id: Id394edfffa94529f39789844c382b7ab6cc2d814
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/431
Reviewed-by: Hadriel Kaplan <hadrielk@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docbook/make-wsluarm.pl b/docbook/make-wsluarm.pl
index 5c0b8db740..c4a06d21ff 100755
--- a/docbook/make-wsluarm.pl
+++ b/docbook/make-wsluarm.pl
@@ -40,8 +40,16 @@ sub gorolla {
 	my $s = shift;
 	$s =~ s/^([\n]|\s)*//ms;
 	$s =~ s/([\n]|\s)*$//ms;
+	# as far as I can tell, these will only convert the *first* '<'/'>' they find in a line, but
+	# not subsequent ones in that line (because the flag isn't 'msg'?) -hadriel
 	$s =~ s/\</&lt;/ms;
 	$s =~ s/\>/&gt;/ms;
+	# this is a horrible horrible hack, but it works
+	# basically we undo the replacements just made above, if it's a '</para>' or '<para>' case
+	# so that comments can include them for prettier output. Really this API generator thing needs
+	# to be rewritten, but I don't understand perl well enough to do it properly -hadriel
+	$s =~ s/&lt;\/para&gt;/<\/para>/ms;
+	$s =~ s/&lt;para&gt;/<para>/ms;
 	$s;
 }