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

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

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James E. King, III updated THRIFT-519:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Support collections of types without having to explicitly define it
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-519
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-519
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Nathan Marz
>            Assignee: James E. King, III
>            Priority: Minor
>
> 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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