Larry,
We've seen the same behavior with one of our Ruby services where we are
returning a count. The problem disappeared when I rewrote the service in
Erlang.
Cheers,
Brian
On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:13 AM, Larry Kang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I found a bug in the thrift ruby libs such that a server won't send a handler
> return value of 0 or false.
>
> For service.thrift:
>
> service SimonSays {
> bool registerClient(1:string email);
> }
>
> On the server side, here's the ruby handler class:
>
> def class SimonSaysServiceHandler
> def registerClient ( email )
> return false # works for 'return true'
> end
> end
>
> The problem is no value returned to the client if the return value is 0 or
> false.
>
> The problem appears in both thrift-instant-r760184.tar.gz (from facebook.com)
> and thrift-0.2.0-incubating.tar.gz from Apache.
>
> I checked jira but no similar problem seems to be listed. I wasnt able to
> find the mailing list archive to check. I've identified the offending line
> of code and would like to fix it if nobody else has already. I'm not
> familiar with how to contribute the fix, any advice? Thanks,
