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James Haggerty commented on THRIFT-1528:
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I guess the other way of working around this is to explicitly unset any field
with default values, since the receiver will set them all again anyway...
(doesn't this seem like a waste of time to you?).
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It would be really useful to have this functionality. Maybe this could be a
TProtocol option?
> Inconsistency in optional fields between Java/C# and python
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>
> Key: THRIFT-1528
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1528
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python - Compiler
> Affects Versions: 0.8
> Reporter: Stefan Gmeiner
> Fix For: 1.0
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> If a struct contains optional fields with default values the generated python
> code serialize differently than Java or C# code.
> In Java or C# optional fields are only serialized if a field was set by the
> client. If not the field is omited during serialization. This is possible
> because C#/Java maintains for each field a 'isset'-boolean which records if a
> field was set or not.
> However the generated python code does not have such a 'isset'-structure. It
> writes every field which is not equal None. As the constructor initialize the
> optional fields with their default value, these fields are written whether
> they are set or not.
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