The Thrift compiler is producing invalid syntax for the Erlang equivalent of
structs: -record()
The names must start with a lower-case character in Erlang to be valid, and
convention is to make them all lower-case. The patch below lower cases them.
Eg:
BEFORE: -record(myStruct, {First, Second}).
AFTER: -record(myStruct, {first, second}).
This is based off svn:
URL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk
Repository Root: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
Repository UUID: 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Revision: 734105
Regards,
RJ
Patch:
Index: compiler/cpp/src/generate/t_erl_generator.cc
===================================================================
--- compiler/cpp/src/generate/t_erl_generator.cc (revision 734105)
+++ compiler/cpp/src/generate/t_erl_generator.cc (working copy)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sstream>
+#include <algorithm>
#include "t_erl_generator.h"
#include "platform.h"
@@ -356,8 +357,10 @@
out << ", ";
hrl_out << ", ";
}
- out << (*m_iter)->get_name();
- hrl_out << (*m_iter)->get_name();
+ std::string name = (*m_iter)->get_name();
+ std::transform(name.begin(), name.end(), name.begin(), ::tolower);
+ out << name;
+ hrl_out << name;
}
out << "})." << endl;
hrl_out << "})." << endl;