Eric Christiansen created THRIFT-2366:
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Summary: Running Thrift in a single process / as a foreign
function interface
Key: THRIFT-2366
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2366
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Eric Christiansen
I propose Thrift be enhanced by allowing the server and client to exist in the
same thread.
The user semantics would be similar to foreign function interfaces, such as
those generated by SWIG.
Please see this SO question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21211749/running-apache-thrift-in-a-single-process-as-a-foreign-function-interface
Use case 1:
Bob writes a CLI Python app that depends on C++ code.
His users integrate his app into shell scripts, and are happy they don't have
to worry about starting and stopping a Thrift server.
Use case 2:
Alice is an iOS developer who wants to combine Haskell and C.
Forking processes isn't allowed in iOS, so before she couldn't start a Thrift
server and get the desired combination.
But now everything can live in a single thread, so she gets her polyglot
programming.
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