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Allen George commented on THRIFT-4098:
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Copying comment from THRIFT-5071:
One can't place thrift files that are dependent on each other in an arbitrary
directory structure, because the generated {{use ...}} declarations assume that
all thrift files are in the same location. For this situation, I *think* the
problem is as follows. Consider:
{noformat}
root
+- common.thrift
+- dir1
+- dependent_1_on_common.thrift
+- ...
+- dir2
+- dependent_2_on_common.thrift
+- ...
{noformat}
The problem here is that the generated {{dependent_1_on_common.rs}} and
{{dependent_2_on_common.rs}} all would have declarations like:
{noformat}
// Autogenerated by Thrift Compiler (0.14.0)
// DO NOT EDIT UNLESS YOU ARE SURE THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
#![allow(unused_imports)]
#![allow(unused_extern_crates)]
#![cfg_attr(feature = "cargo-clippy", allow(too_many_arguments,
type_complexity))]
#![cfg_attr(rustfmt, rustfmt_skip)]
use crate::common; <---- PROBLEMATIC LINE
...
{noformat}
that would obviously break because their location in the rust/filesystem module
hierarchy is not reflected in the thrift-generated code. Assuming the compiler
has the information, I *think* this would be solved by including the Thrift
namespace of the *dependent* file in the generated {{use}} expressions in the
*dependee*.
> Support user-defined output namespaces in generated Rust modules
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: THRIFT-4098
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4098
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Rust - Compiler
> Reporter: Allen George
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently the Rust compiler assumes that all generated modules are rooted at
> the top-level of your crate (i.e. at {{lib.rs}}). There are many useful cases
> where you want to control exactly where the generated code lives (for example
> - you may want it to be inside another sub-module you control); typically
> this is done via thrift {{namespace}} definitions. The compiler currently
> ignores these declarations. It should be changed to:
> # recognize them if they exist, and generate code with the proper module paths
> # default to the current behavior if no {{namespace}} declarations exist
> # work properly in both cases with service inheritance.
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