[jira] [Created] (THRIFT-4978) Kindly add an example how to use javascript binary protocol in the browser

["Mario Emmenlauer (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mario Emmenlauer created THRIFT-4978:
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             Summary: Kindly add an example how to use javascript binary protocol in the browser
                 Key: THRIFT-4978
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4978
             Project: Thrift
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Mario Emmenlauer


I've spent many days researching about how to use thrift binary protocol in the webbrowser, so far with no clear result. There are many references across the internet but they do not form a full picture.

According to my findings, the binary protocol works in nodejs, and supposedly nodejs-thrift is also in other aspects "superior" to plain Javascript. But I can not rally put my finger on any details. Furthermore it seems that nodejs can be used in the browser via browserify, and there are some thrift issues and commits that indicate that people have used this in the past.

However I completely fail to see how this works. I can generate thrift js bindings but then I do not know where to go from there.

It would be really awesome if someone can extend the thrift documentation with a full example of such a use case. Starting for example from the nodejs docs, how can thrift be used in a webbrowser to connect to a nodejs/Java/Python/C++/... server?



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