Passing a Table to the policy engine

[Charles John Wa]

>
> There are two possibilities:
>
> - you can define a new type in bro.init and then access it:
>
>       bro.init:
>             type my_table_count_of_count: table[count] of count;
>       *.cc:
>          	TableVal* myPath = new TableVal(internal_type("my_table_count_of_count")->AsTableType());

This works right out of the box!  thanks!

charles

>
> - you instantiate a new BroType yourself:
>
>       TypeList *myIndices = new TypeList(base_type(TYPE_COUNT));
>       myIndices->Append(base_type(TYPE_COUNT));
>       TableType* myType = new TableType(myIndices, base_type(TYPE_COUNT));
>
>       TableVal* myPath = new TableVal(myType);
>
> (Both are completely untested which means that they probably won't
> work out-of-the-box :-)
>
> Robin
>
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