as3/flash/flex generator
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Key: THRIFT-518
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-518
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Dave Lerman
Attachments: thrift_as3.diff
There's been various mailing list discussions about ActionScript 3 support, but
I didn't see an associated JIRA so I thought I'd create one.
The goal would be to allow a Flash or Flex project to call a Thrift service as
an alternative to Flash's built-in web services and RPC implementations. A
developer might want to use Thrift instead of SOAP, REST or AMF for it's code
generation, strong typing, or for interoperability with existing Thrift-based
services.
The Flash code would look something like:
{code}
public function testFunction() {
var client:Service = new ServiceImpl(new TBinaryProtocol(
new THttpClient(new URLRequest("http://service.com";)));
client.ping("hello world", handlePingResponse);
}
private function handlePingResponse(response:String):void {
trace("RESPONSE: " + response);
}
{code}
where Service is the generated Flash interface, ServiceImpl is the generated
client which implements Service, and THttpClient is an implementation of
TTransport.
Note that Flash is a single-threaded environment so the call is necessarily
asynchronous.
The attached patch is a first-pass at an implementation. It's basically a
line-for-line partial port of the java lib and generator. The lib contains a
single protocol (TBinaryProtocol) and a single transport (THttpClient), along
with a generator which generates the interface and client implementation
(server implementation is skipped since this seems unlikely to be useful). It
still needs some work -- it's untested except for the specific thrift services
we use internally, and needs documentation and cleanup. I'm happy to do this
work if there's general interest in adding as3 support - let me know.
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