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Brian Forbis commented on THRIFT-4601:
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For the record, I ran into this issue with a thrift IDL file that I 
auto-generate from a directory of ~ 200 models. This generated a single service 
thrift file with ~2000 methods in it.

Generating perl and javascript code from this IDL works fine, however the 
compiler would crash on compilation of the java service file.

> Thrift compiled java: Code too large for try statement
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>                 Key: THRIFT-4601
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4601
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Java - Compiler
>            Reporter: Brian Forbis
>            Priority: Minor
>
>  
> Java is limited to having 65535 methods per class file. Anything more than 
> that would cause the java compiler to crash with errors such as:
> {{error: {{too many constants}}}}
> {{error: code too large for try statement}}
> While this likely means the user needs to refactor their IDL into multiple 
> files and have multiple thrift services, the fact that this limitation does 
> not exist in other languages can cause this error to come up in surprise when 
> a user is generating java code for the first time
> My thoughts are that the thrift compiler should emit warnings when it parses 
> an IDL that would not run in certain target languages. This way, even though 
> Java might not currently be used, the user would know about this limitation 
> ahead of time.



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