GitHub user dhull opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1495
THRIFT-4497: Use map() field type for Erlang type for map struct fields The Thrift Erlang code generator previously generated fields with the `#{}` Erlang type for maps fields. In the Erlang type specification languages, however, `#{}` specifically means an empty map. This commit fixes the code to emit `map()` instead, which means the maps keys and values may be of any type. It would be possible to emit a field type such as `${keytype() => maptype()}`, but this commit does not do that. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dhull/thrift thrift-4497-erlang-maps Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1495.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 #1495 ---- commit 67f7f6343f71da75b8f2257a8bb63d2ebd48dc82 Author: David Hull <david.hull@...> Date: 2018-02-14T03:41:35Z THRIFT-4497: Use `map()` field type for Erlang type for map struct fields. The Thrift Erlang code generator previously generated fields with the `#{}` Erlang type for maps fields. In the Erlang type specification languages, however, `#{}` specifically means an empty map. This commit fixes the code to emit `map()` instead, which means the maps keys and values may be of any type. It would be possible to emit a field type such as `${keytype() => maptype()}`, but this commit does not do that. ---- ---