[jira] [Reopened] (THRIFT-2005) new graph datatype

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2005?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jens Geyer reopened THRIFT-2005:
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(...) arbitrary graph structures can be created using the existing IDL without further problems
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I have to correct myself. This is not true, at least not today. Currently the developer is still responsible for taking care of such graph-alike creations, Thrift does not support this yet, even though the syntax does now. There's still some work to do.

> new graph<type> datatype
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>
>                 Key: THRIFT-2005
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2005
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compiler (General)
>            Reporter: Jens Geyer
>            Assignee: Jens Geyer
>              Labels: graph, tree
>         Attachments: 0001-THRIFT-2005-new_graph_datatype-parser_and_prototype.patch, Graph-datatype-spec.txt
>
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> There is a significant demand for some kind of tree structures, which can be generalized to any kind of digraphs with a given node type. 
> Detailed specification and implementation prototype follows shortly.



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