Add a default namespace declaration for all languages
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Key: THRIFT-9
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-9
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Johan Stuyts
Priority: Minor
The namespace for each language has to be specified separately. As new
languages are supported, existing Thrift files automatically become outdated
because no namespace has been specified for the new languages. I also suspect
that in most cases most namespaces have the same value:
{code:none}namespace cocoa com.acme.foo
namespace cpp com.acme.foo
namespace csharp com.acme.foo
namespace java com.acme.foo
php_namespace com.acme.foo
namespace perl com.acme.foo
namespace py com.acme.foo
namespace rb com.acme.foo
namespace smalltalk.category Acme.Foo{code}
By introducing a default namespace the number of namespace declarations can be
reduced, and the chance that a Thrift file has to be updated because a new
language is supported becomes smaller. Namespace declarations for a specific
language override the default namespace:
{code:none}namespace * com.acme.foo
namespace smalltalk.category Acme.Foo
{code}
Instead of using an asterisk the keyword {{default}} could also be used.
This issue was discussed earlier on the mailing list:
http://publists.facebook.com/pipermail/thrift/2008-May/000989.html
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