This is a known limitation. Thrift does not allow forward declarations. Forward
declarations require using pointers and having all Thrift structs be nullable.
This code couldn't be compiled into C++, because the data members of Thrift
structs in C++ are true value members, not pointers or references.
It looks like what you really want here might be something more like this:
struct TCritic {
1: i32 id,
2: i32 author_id, // the ID of the author, not the actual object
3: i32 rating,
4: string text
}
Similarly, you might want to just store a list of critic_ids in the TAccount.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kristinn Örn Sigurðsson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Dependencies
Hi all.
I'm having a little trouble with dependencies in Thrift. See this for an
example:
struct TAccount {
1: i32 id,
2: string email,
3: string name,
4: string password,
5: list<TPhone> phones,
6: string address,
7: string postalCode,
8: string city,
9: string country,
10: list<TCritic> critics
}
struct TCritic {
1: i32 id,
2: TAccount author,
3: i32 rating,
4: string text
}
struct TCompany {
1: i32 id,
2: string name,
3: string email,
4: string phone,
5: string address,
6: string postalCode,
7: string city,
8: string country,
9: list<TAccount> employees,
10: list<TCritic> critics
}
This is just a partial copy/paste. Some structs aren't shown here.
This doesn't compile into Thrift files. The problem here is that TAccount
depends on TCritic and TCritic depends on TAccount. The thing is that
structs can't see other structs that are defined after (below) them. Is
there a workaround for this?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Kristinn.
