Thanks Henrique and Jens, Ideally we'd like to support multiple Gigabytes of data. As you said, we will potentially end up having a server to do file uploading and downloading through URLs for Big files.
But we'd like to support small file (~10MB) uploads using the Thrift interface at least for now. What would be the best approach in achieving that? On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Jens Geyer <jensge...@hotmail.com> wrote: > [...] faster to send a URL and download it separately, [...] >> > > Ack, I was about to write the same. > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Henrique Mendonça > Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:24 PM > To: dev@thrift.apache.org > Subject: Re: File Upload through thrift > > > Hi, > You can do this, how big are your files? You might find that some > implementations do have a size limit, not sure about Java, though. > Anyway, is generally faster to send a URL and download it separately, if it > fits you... > > > On 5 March 2014 20:56, Sachith Withana <swsach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm planning on converting the file into binary type and then do the >> transfer to the server. >> >> What are the possible drawbacks of using this? >> >> This feature is for Apache Airavata. We are dealing with multiple language >> clients and a main Java Server. >> We have to upload ( and download) large files too. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Sachith Withana <swsach...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I need to transfer files between the Thrift clients and Servers. >> > There can be large files to be transferred. >> > >> > Can someone please suggest a way of obtaining this? >> > >> > -- >> > Thanks, >> > Sachith Withana >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Sachith Withana >> >> > -- Thanks, Sachith Withana
