[jira] [Comment Edited] (THRIFT-4363) User-extensible type mappings

["Jens Geyer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jens Geyer edited comment on THRIFT-4363 at 10/16/17 9:19 PM:
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We had that discussion a whikle ago on the mailing lists. Main problem here is that there are so many (actually used) date/time formats with different offsets and precisions across OSes and languages. It's hard to find a common denominator, but (personal opinion) it could be worth a try to find one other than strings like in [this W3C note|http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime] or [ISO 8601|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601]. 

FWIW, we usually use double for our datetime values here, but I also used C# ticks occasionally.


was (Author: jensg):
We had that discussion a whikle ago on the mailing lists. Main problem here is that there are so many (actually used) date/time formats with different offsets and precisions across OSes and languages. It's hard to find a common denominator, but (personal opinion) it could be worth a try to find one other than strings like in [this W3C note|http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime] or [ISO 8601|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601]. 

FWIW, we usually use double for out datetime values here, but I also used C# ticks occasionally.

> User-extensible type mappings
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-4363
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4363
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: D - Compiler, D - Library
>            Reporter: Neia Neutuladh
>            Priority: Minor
>
> One of the most common types I deal with is a datetime. Another common type is a time delta. It would be great if these were built in, but that's unlikely to happen soon. Another option is to put this into the library as a relatively generic thing: use an annotation to tell the compiler what D type this thing is, and then have the library figure out how to convert the format given to the requested type, in a way where the user can override things.
> For instance, I have a Timestamp type. It's got an int64 for the epoch second and an int64 for the nanosecond. I want to turn that into a std.datetime.DateTime. Optionally, the library can possibly look for a way to build a DateTime from those components automatically. It won't find one, so it will produce a fallback that simply produces a reasonable exception. I can provide a manual converter on application startup.
> This lets me have a generated object model that looks more like what I would have written by hand.



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