[jira] Created: (THRIFT-519) Support collections of types without having to explicitly define it

["Nathan Marz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Support collections of types without having to explicitly define it
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                 Key: THRIFT-519
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-519
             Project: Thrift
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Nathan Marz


I frequently find myself needing to be able to serialize/deserialize collections of objects across languages. Every time I need one of these collections, I have to explicitly define it in a thrift file. Some examples are:

struct FriendSet {
  1: set<binary> friend_ids;
}

struct StringList {
  1: list<string> strings;
}

struct FooList {
  1: list<Foo> foos; // foo is a thrift struct
}

It would be convenient if Thrift supported collections of objects directly. Perhaps serialize/deserialize can support taking a list or set, such as:

TDeserializer des = new TDeserializer();
List<Foo> myList = new ArrayList<Foo>();
des.deserialize(myList, record);

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