This may be getting pedantic, but that page reads more like a specification of thrift IDL. BNF is great for specifications, but it reads poorly for documentation.
So technically, there is something on the website that answers this question, it just doesn't answer it in a friendly way. From: "Jens Geyer" <[email protected]> To: "Thrift Users" <[email protected]>, Date: 09/11/2013 02:27 PM Subject: Re: Reducing namespace boilerplate? > I just wish this were documented better. You mean, even better documented as here? http://thrift.apache.org/docs/idl/ Namespace A namespace declares which namespaces/package/module/etc. the type definitions in this file will be declared in for the target languages. The namespace scope indicates which language the namespace applies to; a scope of '*' indicates that the namespace applies to all target languages. [5] Namespace ::= ( 'namespace' ( NamespaceScope Identifier ) | ( 'smalltalk.category' STIdentifier ) | ( 'smalltalk.prefix' Identifier ) ) | ( 'php_namespace' Literal ) | ( 'xsd_namespace' Literal ) [6] NamespaceScope ::= '*' | 'cpp' | 'java' | 'py' | 'perl' | 'rb' | 'cocoa' | 'csharp' JensG -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Andrew Pennebaker Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:36 PM To: Thrift Users Subject: Re: Reducing namespace boilerplate? Works for me! I just wish this were documented better. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Ben Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > I think (but I'm not sure) that "namespace * com.blah.blah" will do what > you want. > > > > From: Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> > To: Thrift Users <[email protected]>, > Date: 09/11/2013 09:59 AM > Subject: Reducing namespace boilerplate? > > > > If I want my .thrift to be compatible with C++ and Java, I think I have to > write both: > > namespace cpp com.blah.blah > > and: > > namespace java com.blah.blah > > Which seems redundant when the namespaces are the same. I'd much rather > write something like: > > namespace com.blah.blah > > And just let all languages use the same namespace scheme. But thrift 0.9.0 > doesn't seem to support this, throwing an empty compile error about > syntax. > > Is there a way to do this in current Thrift? Are there plans in the future > to support the syntax I'm after? > > >
