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Steve Cohen commented on THRIFT-3582:
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To be fair, it's unpleasant to use *in elixir*. It's just fine in Erlang.
I think what's really needed is a full-fledged Elixir implementation, which is
non-trivial, but something we've been intending on doing at some point.
The main problems lie in how the Erlang library handles enums and constants: it
puts them in a .hrl file and Elixir can't get access to them (they're actually
compiled away). Additionally, it models structs as erlang records, while Elixir
has a concept of a struct, which is a better fit here.
If I get some time, I would consider contributing back an elixir
implementation.
Thanks for merging.
> Erlang libraries should have service metadata
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: THRIFT-3582
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3582
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Erlang - Compiler
> Affects Versions: 0.9.3
> Reporter: Steve Cohen
> Assignee: Steve Cohen
> Labels: patch
> Fix For: 1.0
>
> Attachments: thrift-3582_add_erlang_metadata.patch
>
>
> The generated erlang libraries make heavy use of service metadata to
> function, but omit key aspects of the thrift service, such as the names of
> the generated functions, enums and structs.
> Not having these metadadata makes writing libraries much more difficult. The
> included patch adds these metadata. It will make projects like
> http://github.com/pinterest/riffed/ much better.
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