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Jens Geyer reopened THRIFT-2005:
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(...) arbitrary graph structures can be created using the existing IDL without
further problems
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I have to correct myself. This is not true, at least not today. Currently the
developer is still responsible for taking care of such graph-alike creations,
Thrift does not support this yet, even though the syntax does now. There's
still some work to do.
> new graph<type> datatype
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>
> Key: THRIFT-2005
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2005
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Compiler (General)
> Reporter: Jens Geyer
> Assignee: Jens Geyer
> Labels: graph, tree
> Attachments:
> 0001-THRIFT-2005-new_graph_datatype-parser_and_prototype.patch,
> Graph-datatype-spec.txt
>
>
> There is a significant demand for some kind of tree structures, which can be
> generalized to any kind of digraphs with a given node type.
> Detailed specification and implementation prototype follows shortly.
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