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James E. King, III updated THRIFT-519:
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Priority: Minor (was: Major)
> Support collections of types without having to explicitly define it
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> Key: THRIFT-519
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-519
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Nathan Marz
> Assignee: James E. King, III
> Priority: Minor
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> I frequently find myself needing to be able to serialize/deserialize
> collections of objects across languages. Every time I need one of these
> collections, I have to explicitly define it in a thrift file. Some examples
> are:
> struct FriendSet {
> 1: set<binary> friend_ids;
> }
> struct StringList {
> 1: list<string> strings;
> }
> struct FooList {
> 1: list<Foo> foos; // foo is a thrift struct
> }
> It would be convenient if Thrift supported collections of objects directly.
> Perhaps serialize/deserialize can support taking a list or set, such as:
> TDeserializer des = new TDeserializer();
> List<Foo> myList = new ArrayList<Foo>();
> des.deserialize(myList, record);
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