You could use a union to get closer, but it's highly similar to what you already proposed. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-409
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Vivek Goel <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to return null in thrift server ? > > I have a string data type , Which can have three possible values: > > 1. Empty String > 2. Null String > 3. Some string value > > I want to differentiate b/w Empty String and Null String. > > Currently I have done like: > > MyDataType{ > > string value; > > bool is_null; > > } > > I set's is_null as true if value is null. Is there any better way of doing > this ? > regards > Vivek Goel >
