From my first look at thrift some time ago, that's more about API and not about the actual payload, is it?
How about I try to do a protobuf version of the "s7-protocol" and you give thrift a try? Another option would be the DFDL option. Chris Am 09.01.19, 11:13 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <[email protected]>: Hi Chris, we worked (and work) with Thrift [1] at several places. Thrift is a strong contender to protobuf and both have their specific advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps I would prefer Thrift as it comes from the Apache Ecosystm (and supports more langauges) but generally, Tim can say more about working with Thrift. Best Julian [1] https://thrift.apache.org/ Am 09.01.19, 10:45 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]>: Hi all, while I’m currently working on refactoring the S7 driver to a simpler structure so we can convert it to other languages more easily. A colleague of mine pointed me to protobuf/protocol buffers from google [1] From a quick look at it, it does seem as if it could suit our needs quite nicely. I would like to try out if it’s possible to model the S7 data structures in this way. If it works we could eventually quickly create something that serializes/deserializes given data in any language … It seems to be a lot simpler than the DFDL [2] I was thinking of, so guess we have to find out if it has all the capabilities we need. Any thoughts? Chris [1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/javatutorial [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Format_Description_Language
