Improve the TProtocol interface to facilitate more complex protocols
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Key: THRIFT-167
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-167
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
In doing some exploratory coding on THRIFT-110, it's clear that some
improvements to the TProtocol interface would make things much easier.
What I'm thinking is that we should add a new set of methods that take the
TField and value simultaneously. For instance, we'd have writeString(str) and
writeStringField(field, str). This way, the protocol would know explicitly that
it can write the field id, type header, and value all at once. The exsiting
overload (writeString(str)) would still be used when writing containers'
contents.
Existing protocols can implement this behavior very simply as a call to
writeField then writeString, so we wouldn't have to do a ton of work to recode
them completely. Code generators would have to change to take full advantage of
this new interface, but existing generated code would still work, since we'd
retain all the original methods.
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