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Eric Rannaud reopened THRIFT-627:
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      Assignee:     (was: Jake Farrell)

Reopening to attach a patch that names setter methods differently. This is a 
somewhat superficial question but it would be better to address it before 0.7 
comes out and code starts to depend on this choice.

> should c++ have setters for optional fields?
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>
>                 Key: THRIFT-627
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-627
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C++ - Compiler
>         Environment: c++
>            Reporter: Ben Taitelbaum
>             Fix For: 0.7
>
>         Attachments: thrift-627.patch, thrift-627.patch, 
> thrift-627_0.5.x.patch, thrift-627_trunk.patch
>
>
> It seems non-intuitive to me to have to set __isset.someField = true after 
> setting an optional field someField on a struct. Would it make sense to have 
> a set_someField method that would both set the field and modify __isset?
> One of the cases for this is for when a field goes from being required to 
> being optional, and it's easy to forget to set __isset in the code.

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