Re: static vs dynamic typing

[Roger Meier]

Hi Ed
Quoting Ed Judge <ejud...@gmail.com>:

I am new to Thrift and I am doing a comparison to Avro and want to
truly understand the difference between static vs dynamic typing.
Thrift I understand uses static typing while Avro uses dynamic
typing.  If I want to do some filtering of some fields at a “source”
and won’t always know the schema until a user configures which
fields to pull out, will I need to regenerate the .thrift file and
perform a compilation on it anytime the filtering rules change?  I
am probably not doing a very good job of explaining my question.
Just wondering if Avro or Thrift are equally suitable when the
source schema is unknown.

You can use optional fields within your Thrift data structures,
generate the code and use it.

best!
-roger

Thanks,
-Ed