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David Reiss commented on THRIFT-409:
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I think this should probably be done with less code duplication. Specifically:
- In the parser, make it accept struct or union as the beginning of the
definition, rather than creating a whole separate rule for unions.
- Rather than "add_union" in programs and "generate_union" in generators, just
make unions a special structure with a flag (or annotation!) set. That way all
languages will have instant interoperability with unions (with a little help
from the application).
> Add "union" to Thrift
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>
> Key: THRIFT-409
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-409
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Assignee: Bryan Duxbury
> Fix For: 0.2
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> Attachments: thrift-409.patch
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>
> 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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