You can't do this directly, but you can make the value a struct or union with one field of each type that you want to allow as a value. It's cumbersome, particularly if you don't have unions fully implemented in your library, but that's what we've got.
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Javier Garcia <javi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to make a .thrift file for a Python application in order to send > a Python dictionary as a method parameter. > I can define a map where the types of the key and value are fixed: > map <string key, string value> name > > But I need a map where the value type is variable. The key is always a > string but the value might be a string, integer or another dictionary > Is it possible in thrift? > > Thanks in advance >
