Re: method names sent as strings

2015-04-20 Thread David Shoemaker
s are > essentially global, the opportunity for collision is more substantial. I > think service ordinals offer less bang for the buck than method ordinals. > Might make a good follow on project if method ordinals got off the ground. > > > > Nice discussion topic! > > >

Re: method names sent as strings

2015-04-20 Thread David Shoemaker
licity of the multiplexing implementation is attractive, I agree. It also allows for a lot of flexibility. For now, we can simply use short service names. In the future, I'm sure we could build something that maps service names to unique ordinals or short strings. Thanks, David > On Fri, Ap

method names sent as strings

2015-04-17 Thread David Shoemaker
Thrift dev, I was wondering why the decision was made to serialize method names as strings. A helpful thrifter on IRC (JensG) pointed me to https://thrift.apache.org/static/files/thrift-20070401.pdf, which states that hashing method names was considered, but was found to be problematic. I can't a