Does thrift protocol support the "repeateds" field mentioned in the
protobuf doc? This is very handy for implementing streaming/scanning
efficiently. According to the thrift paper, the thrift encoding itself
is designed to support streaming. But it seems that the thrift
language is not expressive enough to support it. list/set/map just
doesn't cut it (you can't do anything with it until they're fully
instantiated). The repeated field can be naturally translated into an
iterator/enumerator interface in native languages.
__Luke
On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Chad Walters wrote:
Looking over Google's documentation, it doesn't appear that there is
much in Protocol Buffers that we don't offer and obviously Thrift
does a lot more than PB.
Probably the place where we suffer the most in comparison is
documentation. I intend to spend some time soon (this weekend?)
throwing up more documentation on the Wiki. Once I get that done,
I'd love some folks to look it over, give comments, and refine it.
Chad
On 7/7/08 3:32 PM, "Jeff Hammerbacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
pretty interesting:
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers-our-serialized.html
.
no mention of stubby...
