On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Saminda Wijeratne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I thought all client SDK sources gets auto-generated from the thrift
> file. Am I missing something here?
>
> They are generated but not auto-generated. The default thrift generator is
> written in c++ which becomes platform specific. So we need to instal thrift
> and generate and put it into the client SDK packages. There are third party
> auto-generators like this from twitter - http://twitter.github.io/scrooge/I 
> think for now we can live with manual generation and everything else
> stabilizes we can explore these options.
>

Hi Suresh,

Could you explain what you mean by manual generation ? Isnt it possible to
automate code generation at least using a shell script ? Downside of manual
generation is it could easily lead to outdated generated code (i.e. thrift
files and generated code does not match).

Thanks
Amila

>
> For now I am foreseeing we distribute the client sdk's similar to evernote
> distribution:
> http://dev.evernote.com/doc/
> https://github.com/evernote
>
> Suresh
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Saminda,
> >
> > As with other distributions, the client SDK's will have sources and we
> can ship the binaries as release artifacts. Ofcourse the java client sdk
> can be pushed to maven. It will be nice to push the PHP SDK to PEAR library
> (http://pear.php.net/), perl to CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/) but I do not
> know whats involved and associate release tasks. But it will be good to
> explore once we get some php users.
> >
> > To start with, I suggested to move the airavata-api, the data models and
> client sdk's to top level in the repository. So now users who are
> interested in checking the source of data model and clients can do so right
> away. The server skeletons and handlers are also here. Only core developers
> who work with component implementations can navigate into modules.
> >
> > Suresh
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Saminda Wijeratne <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry I forgot to ask this question earlier (and probably it was
> asked earlier in a discussion which I missed following). The client SDKs
> are straightaway binary distributions (zip/tar.gz)?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > With no objections, I will goahead and make this directory structure
> and start checking in thrift generated code.
> > >
> > > Suresh
> > > On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > As we are discussing on [1] Of all the examples I looked around, I
> really liked apache accumulo approach in working with thrift (thanks for
> the pointer Supun). How about we shamelessly copy clone accumulo's script?
> It nicely appends license headers and cherry picks thrift interfaces
> changes and copies them into the right destination.
> > > >
> > > > For the source organization, how about the following:
> > > >
> > > > Airavata-Root
> > > >  |- modules
> > > >  |   |- ....
> > > >  |   |- ....
> > > >  |- airavata-api
> > > >  |   |-pom.xml
> > > >  |   |-generate-thrift-files.sh
> > > >  |   |-thrift-idls
> > > >  |   |-datamodel
> > > >  |   |-server
> > > >  |   |-server-handlers
> > > >  |   |-client-sdks
> > > >  |   |   |-java
> > > >  |   |   |-php
> > > >  |   |   |-js
> > > >  |   |   |-.....
> > > >
> > > > Suresh
> > > > [1] - http://markmail.org/message/f6bxanaxvke7boer
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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