doc/thrift.bnf explains how the primitives are combined into more complex structures, but it doesn't cover the way TBinaryProtocol encodes individual elements. As far as I know, the only source for that at the moment is the code.
--David Bryan Duxbury wrote: > Has anyone written up a spec on the binary protocol? I'm sure it > could be deduced by reading the code, but it would be something nice > to have on the wiki. It would also serve as a good starter for > discussion around alternative protocols. If it doesn't exist, I'd be > glad to start writing some stuff down, but don't want to duplicated > effort. > > -Bryan >
