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Proto: Enable fields to be forcefully marked as referenced

Developer Alexander requested to merge Developer-Alexander/wireshark:forcefully_mark_as_referenced into master

Introduce the possibility to mark fields as referenced by an API without the need of a detour via a filter.

A field can have up to 5 different states. A field may not be referenced at all. On the other hand it can be referenced directly or indirectly. (Majorly driven by filters, columns and so on) These references may be constructed and/or removed frequently. In addition to that a field can have an enforced direct or indirect reference. With this it is possible it is possible to enforce a reference to a field independently from the rest of the wireshark logic. An enforced reference needs to be removed explicitly.

It is the intention to give taps the control which fields they want to get provided by the protocol tree.

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