Neia Neutuladh created THRIFT-4363:
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Summary: Better support for std.datetime / core.time types
Key: THRIFT-4363
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4363
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Wish
Components: D - Compiler, D - Library
Reporter: Neia Neutuladh
Priority: Minor
One of the most common types I deal with is a datetime. Another common type is
a time delta. It would be great if these were built in, but that's unlikely to
happen soon. Another option is to put this into the library as a relatively
generic thing: use an annotation to tell the compiler what D type this thing
is, and then have the library figure out how to convert the format given to the
requested type, in a way where the user can override things.
For instance, I have a Timestamp type. It's got an int64 for the epoch second
and an int64 for the nanosecond. I want to turn that into a
std.datetime.DateTime. Optionally, the library can possibly look for a way to
build a DateTime from those components automatically. It won't find one, so it
will produce a fallback that simply produces a reasonable exception. I can
provide a manual converter on application startup.
This lets me have a generated object model that looks more like what I would
have written by hand.
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