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Mathias Herberts commented on THRIFT-409:
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I can't really view the semantics and uses of this. If we take the semantics of
a C union, wouldn't
union MyUnion {
1: string a_string,
2: i32 an_i32,
}
be roughly equivalent to
struct MyUnion {
1: optional string a_string,
2: optional i32 an_i32,
}
with exclusion constraints enforced at the app level?
> Add "union" to Thrift
> ---------------------
>
> Key: THRIFT-409
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-409
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Fix For: 0.2
>
>
> It would be very helpful to have a "union" construct in Thrift. Let's decide
> on the design and then break up into sub-issues to add this feature.
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