[jira] Commented: (THRIFT-66) Allow multiplexing multiple services over a single TCP connection

["James E. King, III (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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James E. King, III commented on THRIFT-66:
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Looks like the test .thrift files in the Channels subdirectory have a syntax error.  The IDL does not have channel specifications - those are made in code.  For anybody applying the patch, just remove the channel designation in the ThriftTest/Channels/echo.thrift and rand.thrift and everything will compile.  It was taken out a while ago, but I forgot to update the .thrift files.  I guess the Single File Code Generator for Visual Studio doesn't get invoked on a Rebuild All, which is odd.

> Allow multiplexing multiple services over a single TCP connection
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>
>                 Key: THRIFT-66
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-66
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: C# - Library, C++ - Library, Cocoa - Library, Erlang - Library, Java - Library, Perl - Library, Python - Library, Ruby - Library
>            Reporter: Johan Stuyts
>            Priority: Trivial
>         Attachments: CalculatorImpl.java, MultiplexTestClientMain.java, MultiplexTestServerMain.java, ReleaseWaitingReplyThreadsOnDisconnect.patch, SharedImpl.java, Thrift Endpoints and Channels.vsd, ThriftCSharpEndpointsChannels.zip, ThriftMultiplexInvocationHandler.java, TMultiplexServer.java, TMultiplexServer.py, TSimpleMultiplexServer.java
>
>
> The current {{TServer}} implementations expose a single service on a port. If an application has many services many ports have to be opened. This is cumbersome because:
> - you have to document which service is available on which port, and remembering the port numbers is difficult
> - to prevent the overhead of connection setup on each call, a client has to maintain to many connections: at least one to each port
> - it requires opening many ports on a firewall if one is between the client and the server.
> By multiplexing multiple services on a single port the problems above are resolved:
> - instead of a port number a symbolic name can be assigned to a service
> - a client can maintain a small pool of connections to a single port
> - only one port has to be opened on the firewall
> The attached Java implementation simply wraps a normal {{CALL}} message with a (new) {{SERVICE_SELECTION}} message. It is not necessary to modify or wrap the response. No changes are needed to the generated classes. Only a new type of server is introduced, and an invocation handler for a dynamic proxy around the {{Client}} classes of services is provided for the client side. The implementation does not handle communication errors (invalid data, timeouts, etc.) yet.

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