I am using the same message schema, or thrift file, in c++ and in erlang. Also setting same three fields in a large struct/record. Looking at network with wireshark.
Erlang client sends this: 0040 80 01 00 01 00 00 00 06 64 65 74 65 63 74 ........ ..detect 0050 00 00 00 00 0c 00 01 08 00 01 00 00 00 7b 04 00 ........ .....{.. 0060 02 40 5e dd 3a 92 a3 05 53 00 0c 00 02 08 00 01 .@^.:... S....... 0070 00 00 00 2a 0c 00 03 00 0c 00 04 00 00 00 ...*.... ...... C++ client sends this: 80 01 00 01 00 00 00 06 64 65 74 65 63 74 ........ ..detect 0050 00 00 00 00 0c 00 01 08 00 01 00 00 00 7b 04 00 ........ .....{.. 0060 02 40 fe 24 0c 9f be 76 c9 00 0c 00 02 08 00 01 .@.$...v ........ 0070 00 00 03 db 08 00 02 00 00 00 00 0c 00 03 08 00 ........ ........ 0080 01 00 00 00 00 04 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........ 0090 04 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 04 00 00 ........ ........ 00a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........ 00b0 00 00 0c 00 04 08 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00 02 00 ........ ........ 00c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........ 00d0 00 00 04 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 05 ........ ........ 00e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 05 00 00 00 00 ........ ........ 00f0 00 00 00 00 04 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 ........ ........ 0100 00 07 00 00 00 00 08 00 08 00 00 00 00 08 00 09 ........ ........ 0110 00 00 00 00 04 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 ........ ........ 0120 00 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 0c 00 00 00 ........ ........ 0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....... I would like to dis-assemble this by hand from docs to understand the meaning of what is being sent. However, so far I have been unable to find a description of the wire format. By way of example, the google protocol buffer encoding is described here: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding Is there a similar document for thrift ? Thanks, Bert Douglas