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Mario Emmenlauer commented on THRIFT-4978:
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Since I could not find another example, I've created one here:
[https://github.com/BioDataAnalysis/thrift-nodejs-browser]
I would be more than happy if the knowledge accumulated in this example could
be integrated into thrift documentation. I can help write the thrift
documentation, if someone can point me to the correct place?
There are currently two sources of seemingly independent documentation:
* The thrift pages at [https://thrift.apache.org/]
* The github readme.md files at (for example)
[https://github.com/apache/thrift/tree/master/lib/nodejs]
I'm under the impression that the first source is sparsely maintained and sadly
quite incomplete. Is it auto-generated? From which sources and by whom? What is
the best place to document new findings?
> Kindly add an example how to use javascript binary protocol in the browser
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> Key: THRIFT-4978
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4978
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: JavaScript - Library
> Reporter: Mario Emmenlauer
> Priority: Minor
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> I've spent many days researching about how to use thrift binary protocol in
> the webbrowser, so far with no clear result. There are many references across
> the internet but they do not form a full picture.
> According to my findings, the binary protocol works in nodejs, and supposedly
> nodejs-thrift is also in other aspects "superior" to plain Javascript. But I
> can not really put my finger on any details. Furthermore it seems that nodejs
> can be used in the browser via browserify, and there are some thrift issues
> and commits that indicate that people have used this in the past.
> However I completely fail to see how this works. I can generate thrift js
> bindings but then I do not know where to go from there.
> It would be really awesome if someone can extend the thrift documentation
> with a full example of such a use case. Starting for example from the nodejs
> docs, how can thrift be used in a webbrowser to connect to a
> nodejs/Java/Python/C++/... server?
> My full user story is:
> * A c++ thrift server
> * A web page that should show an image that was delivered via thrift binary
> protocol from the c++ server
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