Hi,
For some languages Thrift generates partial classes, e.g. for C#. Those can
be easily extended, but not all languages (Embarcadero, I'm looking at you)
and not all language bindings support this, unfortunately.
Have fun,
JensG
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From: BCG
Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 3:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Thrift custom types
On 11/6/2015 at 6:01 PM, "J" <[email protected]> wrote:
Say I want to add methods to the generated Java object such as
"get10XData1()" that just returns 10x data1. Is there some way to
do that
or do I have to hack the thrift compiler and libraries?
Similarly, say I want to have a custom type with custom
serialization/deserialization. Is there any way to do that without
editing
thrift?
If you're using Java, easier than hacking the compiler and libraries would
be to use Facebook's Swift:
https://github.com/facebook/swift
That allows you define your structs as annotated Java classes, and you can
add whatever utility methods you like. Also you can define "builders" that
could be useful to customize serialization and deserialization.
If you want to be able to annotate interfaces and abstract classes instead
of just concrete classes, you might try my fork of that tool (I sent a pull
request to upstream for that feature but they don't seem interested):
https://github.com/bgould/swift
If you don't want to use a tool like that and instead hack on the compiler -
for the utility methods you could probably have the Java generator recognize
an annotation that causes the generated struct to extend from some abstract
base class, or if you are on Java 8 it could be an interface with default
methods. To do custom serialization would be trickier but not impossible I
think.
Thanks
Ben
