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Neia Neutuladh updated THRIFT-4363:
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    Summary: User-extensible type mappings  (was: Better support for 
std.datetime / core.time types)

> User-extensible type mappings
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>
>                 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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