[Bro-Dev] [Bro-Commits] [git/bro] topic/matthias/bloom-filter: Fixing for unserializion error. (40201a1)

[Robin Sommer]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:27 +0200, you wrote:

> I assume this is only necessary when serializing through the base
> class?

Indeed.

>  For example, we have another serializable base class HashVal with
>  derived classes for MD5, SHA1, etc., but never use the class
>  instances in a polymorphic context.

HashVal is derived from Val, so that should be fine as long as
unserializing is triggered via Val::Unserialize(). A good rule of
thumb for this treatment is base classes that come with their own
Unserialize() method.

Robin

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