Use Qt types instead of std in cpp generated code

[Tobias Weihs]

Hello,

I’m using Qt and thrift together and I’m a bit annoyed converting Qt types to 
std types to transfer them over thrift and the other way around. I was looking 
at THRIFT-1567, cpp.type annotation and cpp:templates compiler flag and was 
wondering if those together would allow me use Qt types instead of std types in 
the generated thrift code. Unfortunately the annotations like cpp.type in the 
IDL files do not seem to do anything for me, nothing shows up differently in 
the generated code.

 

I tried running: 

thrift --out V:/thrift -verbose --gen cpp:templates "V:\thrift \stuff.thrift"

 

IDL:

struct BinaryData

{

  1 : required binary data;

} ( cpp.type = "QByteArray" )

typedef list<BinaryData> BinaryDataVector ( cpp.template = "QVector" );

or

typedef list<BinaryData> ( cpp.template = "QVector" ) BinaryDataVector;

 

 

 

Has anybody tried this? How do the annotations work, their documentation seem 
to be a bit non-existing. This would save me a lot of copying memory around.

 

Thanks in advance,

Tobias