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IDL2WRS(1) IDL2WRS(1)
idl2wrs - CORBA IDL to Wireshark Plugin Generator
idl2wrs <filename>
idl2wrs is a program that takes a user specified CORBA IDL file
and generates "C" source code for a Wireshark "plugin".
This resulting file can be compiled as a Wireshark plugin, and
used to monitor GIOP/IIOP traffic that is using this IDL.
idl2wrs is actually a shell script wrapper for two Python
programs. These programs are:
• wireshark_be.py Contains the main IDL Visitor Class
• wireshark_gen.py Contains the Source Code Generator Class
idl2wrs supports heuristic dissection of GIOP/IIOP traffic, and
some experimental code for explicit dissection, based on Object
Key <→ Repository Id mapping. However, code for heuristic based
plugins is generated by default, and users should consider this
the preferred method unless you have some namespace collisions.
Currently there are no options. idl2wrs can be invoked as follows.
1. To write the C code to stdout.
idl2wrs <your_file.idl>
eg: idl2wrs echo.idl
2. To write to a file, just redirect the output.
idl2wrs echo.idl > packet-test.c
idl2wrs will look for wireshark_be.py and wireshark_gen.py in
$PYTHONPATH/site-packages/ and if not found, will try the current
directory ./
The -p option passed to omniidl (inside idl2wrs) indicates where
wireshark_be.py and wireshark_gen.py will be searched. This may
need tweaking if you place these files somewhere else.
If it complains about being unable to find some modules (eg
tempfile.py), you may want to check if PYTHONPATH is set
correctly.
eg: PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3/
wireshark(1), tshark(1)
idl2wrs (including wireshark_be.py and wireshark_gen.py) are part
of the Wireshark distribution. The latest version of Wireshark can
be found at https://www.wireshark.org.
idl2wrs uses omniidl, an IDL parser, and can be found at
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/
Some of the more important things to do are:
• Improve Explicit dissection code.
• Improve command line options.
• Improve decode algorithm when we have operation name
collision.
Original Author
Frank Singleton <frank.singleton[AT]ericsson.com>.SH COLOPHON This
page is part of the wireshark (Interactively dump and analyze
network traffic) project. Information about the project can be
found at ⟨https://www.wireshark.org/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues⟩. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
2025-03-07 IDL2WRS(1)
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