GitHub user cjmay opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/821
THRIFT-2980 Accept external buffer in thrift_memory_buffer constructor Here's a pass at letting thrift_memory_buffer take its buffer as a constructor argument: Add buf (GByteArray pointer) and owner (gboolean) to constructor-only properties. Create buf (object member) during construction if buf (constructor-only property) is NULL, the default. Unref buf during finalize if buf is non-NULL and owner is TRUE. Also change semantics of buf_size slightly: default is now zero, max is G_MAXUINT32, and zero is interpreted as no limit. (My thrift objects are often very large; setting no limit as the default seems to simplify the usage in my opinion, and I believe raising the maximum is harmless.) You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/cjmay/thrift THRIFT-2980 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/821.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #821 ---- commit 939f66c638f68eb811bf22e4cb1a1a13fc2871cd Author: Chandler May <cjmay4...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-01-24T03:27:27Z THRIFT-2980 Accept external buffer in thrift_memory_buffer constructor ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---