Streaming data to the client?

["Christian, Daniel" <Da...@Honeywell.com>]

I'm new to thrift and trying to figure out a system architecture.

I need to have a client do RPCs to a central server, and then have the server stream data to the client as needed.  Basically the client is a GUI with user interactions, plus real time data updates.

How would I structure that in thrift?  I think that OneWay only applies from client to server (correct?).

The only think I can think of is to have the client also be a server and then the server would send OneWay messages to it (making it also be a client).  That sounds really messy...

Thanks,
-Dan

Re: Streaming data to the client?

[Richard Salz <rs...@us.ibm.com>]

> The only think I can think of is to have the client also be a server
> and then the server would send OneWay messages to it (making it also
> be a client).

That's it.

Thrift is really a client/server RPC system.  If you want peer-to-peer, 
you might want to look elsewhere.

        /r$

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