[Xorp-hackers] RIB serialization

[Canini Marco]

Hi all,

I'm working on a research project for which we'd like to be able to dump the RIB at arbitrary checkpoint instants.

To do that, I've tried to apply a library called boost serialization that offers some support to write objects to file.
I've got to the point where I need to serialize the class OriginTable.
Such class has a class member of type Trie<A, const IPRouteEntry<A>*>.
Because of the constness of the Trie Payload type, I'm getting into some troubles with boost serialization.
How harmful is it if I remove the const there?
I'm aware that such a small change is going to require many other changes to basically remove the const attribute in lots of places.
Thanks for your advices.

Marco Canini, Ph.D.
EPFL, Networked Systems Laboratory