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Bryan Duxbury commented on THRIFT-409:
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The generic constructor is intentionally type-unsafe for flexibility. If you
want type safety, you can use the FooUnion.field_name() style static helper
constructors. Those are type safe and guarantee that you are getting the field
id you expected.
I made the choice not to use a ton of generated code in TUnion because it
greatly simplifies the generator and makes the code much easier to follow.
> 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
>
> Attachments: one_rule.diff, thrift-409-v2.patch, thrift-409-v3.patch,
> thrift-409-v4.patch, thrift-409-v5.patch, thrift-409-v6.patch,
> thrift-409-v7.patch, thrift-409.patch
>
>
> 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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