Asterix data format is a complex family of asterix categories,
where each individual category exists in multiple editions.
As a result of many variants, the epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c
is one of the largest dissectors.
So far, the asterix dissector had been maintained manually, where the
generic decoding routines and category/edition specific definitions
were entangled in the same file (packet-asterix.c).
This commit preserves the overall dissector structure, but makes
it easy to update the dissector with new categories or editions as
they become available (via the update script from this commit).
See tools/asterix/README.md file for dissector update procedure.
This commit includes:
- tools/asterix/packet-asterix-template.c
Extraction of generic asterix decoding routines and
common data structures.
- tools/asterix/update-specs.py
Update script, to render the template with up-to-date asterix
specs files. The asterix specs files themselves are maintained in
a separate repository.
- epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c
Automatically generated dissector for asterix data format.
Although generated, this file needs to remain in the repository,
to be able to build the project in a reproducible way.
The generated asterix dissector was additionally tested with:
- ./tools/check_typed_item_calls.py --mask
- ./tools/fuzz-test.sh
Sync with asterix-specs #cef694825c
Zoran Bošnjak