Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it

2017-12-02 Thread Chet Murthy
#x27;d like to make it a real union >> >> How wil this affect compatibility of the Thrift language bindungs in >> general? Unions are widely used, not only for the plugin interface. >> >> JensG >> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >> From: Ch

Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it

2017-12-02 Thread Chet Murthy
> I'd like to make it a real union > > How wil this affect compatibility of the Thrift language bindungs in > general? Unions are widely used, not only for the plugin interface. > > JensG > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > From: Chet Murthy > Sent: Satur

Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it

2017-12-02 Thread Jens Geyer
From: Chet Murthy Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 12:58 AM To: dev@thrift.apache.org Subject: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it In another email thread about unions, I've noted that the current Thrift union implementation isn't actual

Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it

2017-12-02 Thread Jens Geyer
THRIFT-4401 and backwards through JIRA. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- From: Ben Craig Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 3:15 AM To: Thrift-Dev Subject: Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it Find the person that did the initial work an

Re: Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it

2017-12-01 Thread Ben Craig
Find the person that did the initial work and ask them directly. That person is likely the main user. On Dec 1, 2017 5:58 PM, "Chet Murthy" wrote: > In another email thread about unions, I've noted that the current Thrift > union implementation isn't actually a union. It's just a struct with >

Is anybody using the plugin.thrift interface? I'd like to change a little bit of it

2017-12-01 Thread Chet Murthy
In another email thread about unions, I've noted that the current Thrift union implementation isn't actually a union. It's just a struct with all-optional fields. I'd like to make it a real union, but this will break the behaviour of the Thrift plugin interface, b/c it uses unions (t_const_value)