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Christopher Tubbs commented on THRIFT-1805:
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Sure, I definitely think a regular contributor could carry this torch, but I 
just mean that some of the decision-making needs to be done by the PMC. Regular 
contributors can ask for Semantic Versioning, but cannot establish that as a 
policy for the project. That's the job of the PMC.

Thrift has been very welcoming of contributions, but that can also be part of 
the problem: contributions which are mutually exclusive are both welcomed and 
accepted, and behavior flip-flops between versions. At some point, the PMC 
needs to make a decision about which behavior is the desired behavior, in order 
to guide future contributions.

> Thrift should not swallow ALL exceptions
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-1805
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1805
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Java - Compiler, Java - Library
>    Affects Versions: 0.9
>            Reporter: Diwaker Gupta
>            Assignee: Diwaker Gupta
>         Attachments: THRIFT-1805.patch
>
>
> In Thrift 0.8.0, Thrift generated Java code did not swallow application 
> exceptions. As a result of THRIFT-1658, this behavior changed in 0.9.0 and 
> now the generated code swallows ALL application exceptions (via 
> ProcessFunction). Apparently this was the behavior in Thrift 0.6.0 and while 
> I see the rationale, it is breaking our applications.
> Our code relies on the fact that exceptions can propagate outside of Thrift 
> for certain things (e.g., to aggressively drop connections for clients that 
> send invalid/malformed requests). ProcessFunction makes it near impossible to 
> do this -- not only does it swallow the exception, it also loses all 
> information about the original exception and just writes out a generic 
> TApplicationException.
> IMO ProcessFunction should only catch TException. If the application code 
> wants to use other exceptions for some reason (in particular, Errors and 
> RuntimeExceptions), Thrift shouldn't prevent that.



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