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Bryan Duxbury commented on THRIFT-409:
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That's correct. It's intended to serve as a reference implementation for other
language developers. As a bonus, languages that don't yet generate unions
specifically can just generate a struct, and everything will continue to work.
> Add "union" to Thrift
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>
> Key: THRIFT-409
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-409
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Assignee: Bryan Duxbury
> Fix For: 0.2
>
> Attachments: one_rule.diff, thrift-409-v2.patch, thrift-409-v3.patch,
> thrift-409-v4.patch, thrift-409-v5.patch, thrift-409-v6.patch,
> thrift-409-v7.patch, thrift-409.patch
>
>
> It would be very helpful to have a "union" construct in Thrift. Let's decide
> on the design and then break up into sub-issues to add this feature.
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