How to add plugin version info in “About Wireshark” Using Lua

Question

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As mentioned in above figure If i want to display my lua scipt's version in About Wireshark. How can i do that? Is there any LUA API Available for this?

Accepted Answer

No not yet. There's an open enhancement request in bugs.wireshark.org, as bug 11315. It won't be available until version 2.0, however.

And it's not guaranteed to work the way it is suggested to in that enhancement request - it might just be implemented as a Lua function call instead of table attribute.

Answer 2

see: https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/43375/display-a-version-number-for-lua-dissector

short version: Example Lua code:

local my_info = 
{
    version = "1.0.1",
    author = "Jane Doe",
    description = "this plugin parses rainbows",
    repository = "https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife"
}
set_plugin_info(my_info)