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Eric Anderson commented on THRIFT-395:
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Is it worth adding a text and binary types (following SQL's convention)? You
could then put a warning on strings that they are deprecated because of the
cross-language typing issue, and have them accept input as either text or
binary and have text and binary accept strings (with validation perhaps on
text). This preserves backwards compatibility and provides a migration path.
> Python library + compiler does not support unicode strings
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>
> Key: THRIFT-395
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-395
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Compiler (Python), Library (Python)
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
> Fix For: 0.1
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-python-Minor-cleanup-of-protocols-don-t-use-str.patch,
> 0002-THRIFT-395.-python-Phase-One-of-support-for-unicode.patch,
> 0003-THRIFT-395.-python-Phase-Two-of-support-for-unicode.patch,
> 0004-python-Remove-ridiculous-semicolons-from-gen-code.patch,
> python-utf8-v2.patch, python-utf8.patch
>
>
> Effectively, all strings in the python bindings are treated as binary strings
> -- no encoding/decoding to UTF-8 is done. So if a unicode object is passed
> to a (regular, non-binary) string, an exception is raised.
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