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Eric Anderson commented on THRIFT-110:
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bq You would also have to instantiate the structure by name which is impossible
in C++ and expensive in Java.
This is not completely true; in our use of thrift, we are only using the
marshalling layer, not the service portion of it. We treat certain structures
(those with names like xRequest or xResponse) as messages. We extended thrift
so that we could specify a virtual base class for structures, and then it's
easy to write something that will instantiate a structure by name and can pass
it to something else. This approach doesn't work with base types or
sets/lists/maps, but you could wrap those in structures. I can send in a
patch, but it won't be as clean as the other patches I've submitted since I'm
working on those first.
> A more compact format
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> Key: THRIFT-110
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-110
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Noble Paul
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> Thrift is not very compact in writing out data as (say protobuf) . It does
> not have the concept of variable length integers and various other
> optimizations possible . In Solr we use a lot of such optimizations to make a
> very compact payload. Thrift has a lot common with that format.
> It is all done in a single class
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/util/NamedListCodec.java?revision=685640&view=markup
> The other optimizations include writing type/value in same byte, very fast
> writes of Strings, externalizable strings etc
> We could use a thrift format for non-java clients and I would like to see it
> as compact as the current java version
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