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James E. King III commented on THRIFT-2464:
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This has the potential to lead to chaos. What if someone chooses a type that
does not meet the requirements? For example what if they use a std::multimap
because they want to support multiple values for the same key, and then they
serialize that and send it to another language that implements a map which only
supports one value per key? The result would be silent data loss.
It would be better to declare a hashmap or a multimap core type and implement
it across the languages so this chaos is avoided.
> Transition cpp_type and cpp_include keywords to compiler annotations
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> Key: THRIFT-2464
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2464
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Compiler (General)
> Affects Versions: 0.9.2
> Environment: C++
> Reporter: Randy Abernethy
> Assignee: Randy Abernethy
> Priority: Minor
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> The cpp_type and cpp_include keywords provide a useful feature but are
> language specific. In keeping with the trend of moving the interface language
> to a clean cross implementation language abstraction, these two keywords
> should be transitioned to annotations.
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