Hi All, I was wondering is it possible to have two way RPC style communication over a single Thrift transport. What I mean is say the client connects to the server and calls a few service functions, then later whilst the connection is still open the server wants to call a service on the client. I have a need to occasionally push notifications to the client and I would rather not have the client polling from them as they may only happen every few hours and I really need the client to respond to the push in a few seconds.
Also is it possible to make the transport connections stateful. In a previous generation of the my app it would store connection sate info such as an authenticated role. Then any future connection would check the authentication before continuing. I realize I could pass some sort of token back and forth with every call but thats hardly efficient if the token is sufficiently large to be secure. Finally has anyone produced an encrypted transport for Thrift. I imagine it should be relatively easy once you have the securely negotiated the session key, it should be possible just to split the stream into blocks and run them through a block cipher like AES. The only slight complication would be padding out the block to make sure its alway of the correct size. Has anyone tried this already ? Thanks Charlie M
