Github user Jens-G commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/982#discussion_r58929004
--- Diff: compiler/cpp/src/generate/t_py_generator.cc ---
@@ -384,6 +406,55 @@ void t_py_generator::init_generator() {
py_autogen_comment() << endl <<
py_imports() << endl <<
"from .ttypes import *" << endl;
+
+ construct_object_dependent_graph();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Construct object dependent graph to determine object generate order
+ * if cycle dependent is detected, generate process will be aborted
+ * object dependent example
--- End diff --
But your test case is perfectly valid Thrift IDL:
```
struct A {
1: B b;
}
struct B {
1: A a;
}
```
One can do this with Thrift. Is there no way to support that in Python?
Something like forward-declaration of types maybe?
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