TODO list

Tasks:

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CORE:

• [CORE] rehaul the protocol parser and analyzer to allow for stream analysis
• [CORE] implement dependency tracking among objects and messages

GUI:

• Prepare the main view of the analyzer window. Please refer to GUI Ideas section. Work in progress on https://github.com/blessed/wlanalyzer/tree/gui

OTHER:

• Add doxygen documentation to the code
• Include wayland XML protocol definition files since version 1.0 in the source tree

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GUI Ideas:

• create a view similar to the view wireshark uses for packet representation https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChUseMainWindowSection.html ![Wireshark main view] wireshark_main_view

  • Dockable and reorderable views - done in pull request
  • Packet List view
  • Message Structure/Dissection tree view
  • Raw Message Hex dump

• create a grapical timeline with the functionality of displaying messages on the timeline. What we want to achieve is similar to both GUI and UX of the Trace Compass Histogram view.

  • http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Linux_Tools_Project/LTTng2/User_Guide#Histogram_View
  • Basically it should be a peristimulus time histogram (PSTH) with zooming and scrolling properties. ![Peristimulus Time Histogram (PTSH)] PTSH_histogram

• create a graphical representation of a dependency directed graph between Wayland objects

• create a sequence diagram representing message passing and object lifetime http://www.uml-diagrams.org/sequence-diagrams.html. Basically an extended version of Wireshark "Flow Graph"