On 11/6/2015 at 6:01 PM, "J" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Say I want to add methods to the generated Java object such as >"get10XData1()" that just returns 10x data1. Is there some way to >do that >or do I have to hack the thrift compiler and libraries? > >Similarly, say I want to have a custom type with custom >serialization/deserialization. Is there any way to do that without >editing >thrift? If you're using Java, easier than hacking the compiler and libraries would be to use Facebook's Swift: https://github.com/facebook/swift That allows you define your structs as annotated Java classes, and you can add whatever utility methods you like. Also you can define "builders" that could be useful to customize serialization and deserialization. If you want to be able to annotate interfaces and abstract classes instead of just concrete classes, you might try my fork of that tool (I sent a pull request to upstream for that feature but they don't seem interested): https://github.com/bgould/swift If you don't want to use a tool like that and instead hack on the compiler - for the utility methods you could probably have the Java generator recognize an annotation that causes the generated struct to extend from some abstract base class, or if you are on Java 8 it could be an interface with default methods. To do custom serialization would be trickier but not impossible I think. Thanks Ben
