ASN.1, huh? I clicked that link. Couldn't find an overview link. "Papers" and "presentations" and "consortium members" and all that.
Wikipedia has a more reasonable introduction. All those consortia members should learn from that, rather than worrying about their "international standard". :-P That said, ASN.1 is about both description and on-wire formats. If Thrift used ASN as the descriptive language, then people might think it also uses the same wire format. And ASN.1 might not have things like field tag numbers, needed by Thrift. I don't think we're talking about a new IDL here. Just the technology to convert those into compilable runtimes. Cheers, -g On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 21:22, Roger Meier <[email protected]> wrote: > talking about interface descriptions and languages to build to compiler. > > What about ASN.1 (http://www.asn1.org/) as a discription language or pre > format? > > Does somebody have a ASN.1 to Thrift compiler ? > > Of course there might be some gaps, but what about that? > > > Am 26.08.2010 22:54, schrieb Bjorn Borud: >> >> on the project I currently work on we have a (ANTLR-based) parser for >> the Thrift IDL language in order to generate code for a proprietary >> serialization library. >> >> it struck me that perhaps we could use this parser the implement the >> Thrift compiler in Java instead. this would mean that the thrift >> compiler itself could be built as a platform independent artifact -- >> which should make it a lot more elegant to write Maven plugins for >> Thrift. it would also eliminate the need (for us) to maintain Thrift >> compiler binaries for all platforms and versions of the compiler. >> >> currently the parser lacks some minor features, but this could easily be >> rectified. the real job is to add the code generation for various >> languages. >> >> if anyone is interested in this, I am going to talk to some people >> tomorrow to get formal approval for open sourcing it. >> >> any thoughts? >> >> -Bjørn >> >> >> >> > >
