Jens Geyer created THRIFT-5216: ---------------------------------- Summary: generate DeepCopy methods Key: THRIFT-5216 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5216 Project: Thrift Issue Type: Improvement Components: netstd - Compiler Reporter: Jens Geyer Assignee: Jens Geyer
Frequently one runs into a need to create deep copies from Thrift data objects. Since the framework does not really offer support for such a function, it seems helpful to have the Thrift Comnpiler generate the code necessary to support this. Remarks: * Microsoft explicitly discourages developeres to use ICloneable for this as there is no reliable definition whether ICloneable creates shallow or deep copies, so we don't use it either. * Although there is no officially set standard, most common naming convention seems to be {{DeepCopy()}} for such a method, so we follow that model but leave room for future changes (i.e. different naming) -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)