Anatol Pomozov created THRIFT-2835:
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Summary: Add possibility to distribute generators separately from
thrift core, and load them dynamically
Key: THRIFT-2835
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2835
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Anatol Pomozov
It is a follow-up for discussion with Facebook's fbthrift
https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/issues/48
fbthrift adds its own generator that creates C++ classes based on their
libraries. I do not know how upstreamable this generator but I think other
companies would want to do the same - create their own custom generators.
Currently there is no way to distribute generators separately from the thrift
core. Thus the company have to fork whole project and add their own generator.
It is what Facebook did.
The idea is that thrift should be able to load language generators dynamically.
i.e. a company foo creates its own generator and puts it to system
/usr/lib/thrift/generators/cpp_foo.so When thrift compiler starts - it checks
/usr/lib/thrift/generators/ and uses dlopen() to load the shared libraries. The
shared library contains information about the generator (name, options, ...)
thus it allows thrift core to use this custom third-party generator.
This allows companies to create and distribute generator will less pain and no
need to fork the project.
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