Avoid implicit conversions in Zeek utility classes #376
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This PR mainly refactors the API in
zeek.hh
as preparation for the upcomingvariant
switch. However, the changes also address some rather nasty API details like implicit conversions all over the place and very verbose code in ourvalid()
implementations that make it often hard to follow what's actually being checked.variant
easier, the Zeek-compatibility classes provide an interface fromdata_message
nowBatchBuilder
gives an interface for assembling batches without manually pulling out thedata
member from Zeek message types