Hi I'm investigating the possibility of using Thrift however, I
currently have the need for two things that I don't think Thrift
currently supports: self referencing structs and struct inheritance.
The type of data I'm trying to serialise is a tree so Type A contains
a list of A.
However A also has a tree of sub-types A->B->C, A->D etc.
Ideally I'd like to represent this in thrift as something like:
struct A
{
1: i32 id,
2: list<A> children
}
struct B extends A
{
1:i32 extraField
}
Apologies if this has previously been discussed. Is this something
that was ruled out? Is anyone interested and/or working on this
already?
Regards
Martin
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Martin Ritchie
