Return an struct containing error information. This simplifies
the interface to more easily provide richer diagnostics in the future.
Add an error code besides a human-readable error string to allow
checking programmatically for errors in a robust manner. Currently
there is only a generic error code, it is expected to increase
in the future.
Move error location information to the struct. Change callers and
implementation to use the new interface.
This removes the last dependency of the logging subsystem on the
preferences module. The latter is started much later than the former
and this is an issue.
The Windows-only preference "gui.console_open" is stored in the
registry as HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Wireshark\ConsoleOpen. The semantics
are exactly the same. The preference is read by the logging subsystem
for initialization and then again by the preferences (read/write) so
the user can configure it as before.
The code to store the preference also in the preferences file was
kept, for backward compatibility and because it is not incompatible
with using the Registry concurrently.
The elimination of the prefs dependency also allows moving the Windows
console logic to wsutil and add the functionality to wslog directly,
thereby eliminating the superfluous Wireshark/Logray custom log handler.
To be able to read the ws_log_console_open global variable from
libwireshark it becomes necessary to add a new export macro
symbol called WSUTIL_EXPORT.
Change anything that matches
grep -Eir '(signal|slot) *\( *on_action' ui
to new-style connections so that we can catch any future direct
connection conversion issues at compile time.
Change a connection from on_actionCaptureOptions_triggered to
showCaptureOptionsDialog and make showCaptureOptionsDialog public. Fixes
an issue introduced in fcdb77dc.
The "conversation table" mechanism supports two types of tables, one for
the "Conversations" menu item under "Statistics" and one for the
"Endpoints" menu item under "Statistics". The first of them shows
statistics for conversations at various layers of the networking stack;
the second of them shows statistics for endpoints at various layers of
the networking stack.
The latter is *not* a table of hosts; an endpoint might be a host,
identified by an address at some network level (MAC, IP, etc.), or it
might be a port on a host, identified by an address/port pair.
Some data types, function names, etc. use "host" or "hostlist" or other
terms that imply that an endpoint is a host; change them to speak of
endpoints rather than hosts, using names similar to the corresponding
functions for conversations.
Provide wrapper functions and typedefs for backwards source and binary
compatibility; mark them as deprecated in favor of the new names.
Clean up some comment errors found in the process.
GLib watches and timeouts require GLib mainloop iterations. If the GLib
mainloop is not running, then GLib watches and timeouts won't trigger.
Back in the GTK+ days, then GLib mainloop was running on all systems.
Since the Qt transition, GLib mainloop only runs on Linux when Qt does
support it and environment variable QT_NO_GLIB=1 is not set.
Start polling GLib mainloop in separate thread if Qt is not running GLib
mainloop. Note that only the polling is handled in separate thread, the
dispatch and thus all user callbacks execute in the main thread.
Running GLib mainloop when needed enables full GLib functionality on all
platforms and thus allows us to simplify our code by using GLib platform
specific code.
Switch to the name "Logray" for the log analyzer. Rays are biological
cousins of sharks and more people like the name "Logray" in a completely
unscientific survey here. Apologies for any inconvenience this might
cause.
João Valverde