Do you need a C impel or can you use C++11 on the embedded sys? On Saturday, January 9, 2016, Dane Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm part of a project that makes heavy use of Thrift and it's RPC > functionality across Java, C++, and Python. This project now needs to > incorporate an embedded component with 256kb ram running on a CortexM3. > After a bit of research, I've decided that there is no straight forward way > of using Thrift in this context out of the box. We are not willing to bring > GLib in as a dependency, nor are we willing to use C++ and Boost. What we > simply need is a way to reuse the binary protocol and most importantly, the > IDL used throughout the rest of the project. We are using many large > structs, so maintaining 4 hand written implementations across our 4 > languages doesn't make sense. > > Some solutions I've considered: > > 1. Manually write code serialize and deserialize the thrift binary > protocol. > - We are dealing with many large structs, and ensuring correctness of this > handwritten code is tedious and error prone. > > 2. Use a JSON protocol and use existing JSON parsers on the C side. > - Again error prone, may not be performant enough for our use case. > > 3. *Possibly *create something like a "TFlatBufferProtocol" (or any other > Serialization format with an IDL) > - I haven't looked into this in depth, it seems messy and hard to maintain. > > I'd appreciate any advice you all have to offer here. > > Thanks, > > Dane >
