"iterated container types" and a nicer JSON wire protocol (2 of 2)

2017-10-17 Thread Chet Murthy
[A second note to follow up on the description of my questions around a new JSON wire protocol.] The most "intractable" problem with a nicer wire protocol seems to be in dealing with iterated containers, and specifically with their types. Consider a message like: struct Foo { 1: required l

"iterated container types" and a nicer JSON wire protocol (1 of 2)

2017-10-17 Thread Chet Murthy
Folks, [at the suggestion of a couple of committers, I'm sending this to the dev@ mailing-list. It's a little involved, and I'll write a second note, with even more detail. Please skip if this is too much in the weeds, and with my apologies for the details. Really am looking for advice here ...

Re: "iterated container types" ?

2017-10-16 Thread Jens Geyer
le, which is the basis of the cross-platform test suite: https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/test/ThriftTest.thrift Have fun, JensG From: Chet Murthy Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:45 PM To: jensge...@hotmail.com ; r...@apache.org Subject: "iterated container types" ? Randy