alisdair sullivan created THRIFT-2628:
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Summary: erlang backend doesn't support repeated names
Key: THRIFT-2628
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2628
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Erlang - Compiler, Erlang - Library
Reporter: alisdair sullivan
the erlang backend generates records to represent structs. instead of the
unique sequential id they use the struct field name as the record keys. records
in erlang do not support repeated keys so generated erlang modules do not
compile
the most obvious fix is to refuse to generate code from structs with repeated
keys but this means the erlang backend is not capable of handling all valid
structs
the easiest fix is to switch structs to use the unique sequential ids as the
keys of the record but this breaks backwards compatibility and probably
necessitates generating helper functions to retrieve fields by name
also possible is switching to an erlang data structure that supports repeated
keys but this would also require breaking backwards compatibility
also possible
possible fixes are to refuse to generate code from structs with repeated keys,
switch generated records to use the unique sequential ids as the key or switch
to an erlang data structure that supports repeated keys (probably a proplist)
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