THRIFT-4401 and backwards through JIRA.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Ben Craig Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 3:15 AM To: Thrift-Dev Subject: Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it Find the person that did the initial work and ask them directly. That person is likely the main user. On Dec 1, 2017 5:58 PM, "Chet Murthy" <[email protected]> wrote: > In another email thread about unions, I've noted that the current Thrift > union implementation isn't actually a union. It's just a struct with > all-optional fields. I'd like to make it a real union, but this will > break > the behaviour of the Thrift plugin interface, b/c it uses unions > (t_const_value) in a non-union way. > > I would like to find people who are using this interface, and work with > them to ensure that their code doesn't break, so that I can "fix" unions. > This isn't hard, but it's a breaking change to the protocol, b/c.... well, > the current behaviour is a bug. So code that counts on it, when that bug > is fixed .... will break. > > Is there anybody out there using plugin.thrift? > > --chet-- > P.S. I find this interface to be lovely, and want to write a new > compiler/emitter backend using it. Which is why I want to fix it first. >
