text2pcap.h File Reference

Dumping of RTP/RTCP packets to text2pcap or pcap format (headers) More...

#include <glib.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "mutex.h"

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Data Structures
struct	janus_text2pcap
	Instance of a text2pcap recorder. More...

Typedefs
typedef struct janus_text2pcap	janus_text2pcap
	Instance of a text2pcap recorder.
typedef enum janus_text2pcap_packet	janus_text2pcap_packet
	Packet types we can dump.

Enumerations
enum	janus_text2pcap_packet { JANUS_TEXT2PCAP_RTP , JANUS_TEXT2PCAP_RTCP , JANUS_TEXT2PCAP_DATA }
	Packet types we can dump. More...

Functions
const char *	janus_text2pcap_packet_string (janus_text2pcap_packet type)
janus_text2pcap *	janus_text2pcap_create (const char *dir, const char *filename, int truncate, gboolean text)
	Create a text2pcap recorder.
int	janus_text2pcap_dump (janus_text2pcap *instance, janus_text2pcap_packet type, gboolean incoming, char *buf, int len, const char *format,...) G_GNUC_PRINTF(6
	Dump an RTP or RTCP packet.
int int	janus_text2pcap_close (janus_text2pcap *instance)
	Close a text2pcap recorder.
void	janus_text2pcap_free (janus_text2pcap *instance)
	Free a text2pcap instance.

Detailed Description

Dumping of RTP/RTCP packets to text2pcap or pcap format (headers)

Author

Lorenzo Miniero loren.nosp@m.zo@m.nosp@m.eetec.nosp@m.ho.c.nosp@m.om

Copyright

GNU General Public License v3

Implementation of a simple helper utility that can be used to dump incoming and outgoing RTP/RTCP packets to pcap or text2pcap format. Saving to pcap natively can be more efficient but will lack some features, as the target will be a legacy (v2.4) .pcap file and not a .pcapng one. When saving to a text file, instead, the resulting file can be passed to the text2pcap application in order to get a .pcap or .pcapng file that can be analyzed via Wireshark or similar applications, e.g.:

/usr/sbin/text2pcap -D -n -l 1 -i 17 -u 1000,2000 -t '%H:%M:%S.' dump.txt dump.pcapng
/usr/sbin/wireshark dump.pcapng

While plugins are free to take advantage of this functionality, it's been specifically added to make debugging from the core easier. Enabling and disabling the dump of RTP/RTCP packets for the media traffic of a specific handle is done via the Admin/Monitor API so check the documentation of that section for more details. Notice that starting a new dump on an existing filename will result in the new packets to be appended.

Note

Motivation and inspiration for this work came from a similar effort recently done in Firefox, and from a discussion related to a blog post on WebRTC hacks, where guidelines are provided with respect to debugging based on pcap files.

Core

Typedef Documentation

janus_text2pcap

typedef struct janus_text2pcap janus_text2pcap

Instance of a text2pcap recorder.

janus_text2pcap_packet

typedef enum janus_text2pcap_packet janus_text2pcap_packet

Packet types we can dump.

Enumeration Type Documentation

janus_text2pcap_packet

enum janus_text2pcap_packet

Packet types we can dump.

Enumerator
JANUS_TEXT2PCAP_RTP
JANUS_TEXT2PCAP_RTCP
JANUS_TEXT2PCAP_DATA

Function Documentation

janus_text2pcap_close()

int int janus_text2pcap_close

(

janus_text2pcap *

instance

)

Close a text2pcap recorder.

Parameters

[in]

instance

Instance of the janus_text2pcap recorder to close

Returns

0 in case of success, a negative integer otherwise

janus_text2pcap_create()

janus_text2pcap * janus_text2pcap_create	(	const char *	dir,
		const char *	filename,
		int	truncate,
		gboolean	text
	)

Create a text2pcap recorder.

Note

If no target directory is provided, the current directory will be used. If no filename is passed, a random filename will be used.

Parameters

[in]	dir	Path of the directory to save the recording into (will try to create it if it doesn't exist)
[in]	filename	Filename to use for the recording
[in]	truncate	Number of bytes to truncate each packet at (0 to not truncate at all)
[in]	text	Whether we'll save as text, or directly to pcap

Returns

A valid janus_text2pcap instance in case of success, NULL otherwise

janus_text2pcap_dump()

int janus_text2pcap_dump	(	janus_text2pcap *	instance,
		janus_text2pcap_packet	type,
		gboolean	incoming,
		char *	buf,
		int	len,
		const char *	format,
			...
	)

Dump an RTP or RTCP packet.

Parameters

[in]	instance	Instance of the janus_text2pcap recorder to dump the packet to
[in]	type	Type of the packet we're going to dump
[in]	incoming	Whether this is an incoming or outgoing packet
[in]	buf	Packet data to dump
[in]	len	Size of the packet data to dump
[in]	format	Format for the optional string to append to the line, if any

Returns

0 in case of success, a negative integer otherwise

janus_text2pcap_free()

void janus_text2pcap_free

(

janus_text2pcap *

instance

)

Free a text2pcap instance.

Parameters

[in]

instance

Instance of the janus_text2pcap recorder to free

janus_text2pcap_packet_string()

const char * janus_text2pcap_packet_string

(

janus_text2pcap_packet

type

)