On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, at 01:07, Bhalchandra Pandit wrote:
> Thanks for showing interest and for raising valid questions.
> 
> I do not currently have a forked branch to show how it is done. However, I
> can certainly make it happen. It will take me a couple of weeks or so to do
> it. I will need to get myself familiarized with the contribution process.

The short version is that you need to open a ticket on Jira [1] and then send a 
PR against the master branch on Github [2] with the title "THRIFT-NNNN: Your 
title". Everything else can be figured out later.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/THRIFT/issues

[2] https://github.com/apache/thrift/

> 
> To answer other questions:
> 
>    1. The current implementation is in Java. However, it can also be easily
>    ported to other languages. Happy to help in that direction as well.
>    2. The solution does not modify the definition of any structure (eg,
>    Payload => SlimPayload). The output instance has the same type regardless
>    of whether we use full deserialization or partial deserialization. In that
>    sense, it is 100% compatible in both directions (partial <=> full). The
>    solution enables selectively deserializing any arbitrary nested subset.
> 
> Kumar
> 
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 4:10 PM Duru Can Celasun <dcela...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > This is definitely an interesting problem at scale and it'd be great to
> > have a solution upstream.
> >
> > I second Yuxuan's questions. From the blog post it seems you have an
> > implementation for Java, but it would be great to have at least one more.
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, at 00:00, Yuxuan Wang wrote:
> > >  Hi Bhalchandra,
> > >
> > > Do you have any open source code (e.g. forked thrift) to show how you
> > > implemented it? The blog post stated what's the problem but really lack
> > > information on the solution side:
> > >
> > > 1. How did you solve the problem?
> > > 2. In which language(s) did you implement the solution?
> > >
> > > Without that information it's really not much we can do here.
> > >
> > > Also just based on the problem you described, a simple solution would be
> > > just to duplicate the struct definition and remove the fields you don't
> > > need, for example:
> > >
> > > // Original struct
> > > struct Payload {
> > >   1: optional Type1 field1,
> > >   2: optional Type2 field2,
> > >   3: optional Type3 field3,
> > >   ...
> > > }
> > >
> > > // Slim struct
> > > struct SlimPayload {
> > >   1: optional Type1 field1,
> > >   // field2 removed because we don't care about it in this use case
> > >   3: optional SlimType3 field3,
> > >   ...
> > > }
> > >
> > > But of course it's hard to keep SlimPayload in sync with the original
> > > Payload so I can see there are some values to have some helpers to help
> > > that, but as long as you don't make breaking changes into Payload "keep
> > > them in sync" is a false problem.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:56 PM Bhalchandra Pandit
> > > <kpan...@pinterest.com.invalid> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > I work for Pinterest. I developed a technique for partial
> > deserialization
> > > > of Thrift that has been very useful in significantly improving
> > efficiency
> > > > of the data processing at Pinterest. I would like to contribute that
> > > > feature to Apache Thrift. More details on this technique are available
> > in
> > > > this blog I recently wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/improving-data-processing-efficiency-using-partial-deserialization-of-thrift-16bc3a4a38b4
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know if any of you are interested in helping with
> > > > contributing this work to the main branch.
> > > >
> > > > Kumar
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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