Fully agree with your statements. I'm not the consortium lover.
I prefer democracy where all have the same vote weight.
one thing i had in mind was converting some asn.1 we have at work into
thirft idl
or
a similar thing might be protocol buffers idl to thrift converter.
I know, sounds crazy...but sometimes things start there!
Am 27.08.2010 03:33, schrieb Greg Stein:
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
