Thrift query - Need help

[Rajendra Jasathy <ra...@igate.com>]

Hi,

I got this email from Apache archives, I have a basic query on thrift.

I am developing an test automation framework in Perl. I usually come across useful libraries written in other prog languages (C++, Python, Java, ...).
Can I use Thrift to interface with these libraries without using a RPC mechanism? If yes how to do it?

Based on literature available on Thrift I got an understanding that I can use libraries written in other prog languages only if I use a Client-Server kind of a model using Thrift with Server exposing the libs as a servce.

Please correct me and provide me guidance.

Regards

Rajendra

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Re: Thrift query - Need help

[Mike Stanley <mi...@mikestanley.org>]

I myself am new to thrift, and new to this mail list, but let me try and
answer your question.

Thrift provides cross language data serialization format, an IDL, and
out-of-the-box server implementations/code-generation for working with
various libraries.   It is not directly a replacement or analogous to
something like SWIG http://www.swig.org.

However, it is useful for interopability between services & clients written
in different languages.  In other words, the approach you would take with
thrift to use a library written in a different language, is to expose and
run a service for the desired library, and then a client in your target
library.

The service doesn't necessarily need to be a TCP/network service.  It can
be file based, unix sockets, unix pipes, etc.  You do need a service
provider side, and a client side though.  Thrift is good at helping with
all the plumbing and data format issues dealing with integrating different
processes.

hope this helps answer your question.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Rajendra Jasathy <
rajendra.jasathy@igate.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got this email from Apache archives, I have a basic query on thrift.
>
> I am developing an test automation framework in Perl. I usually come
> across useful libraries written in other prog languages (C++, Python, Java,
> ...).
> Can I use Thrift to interface with these libraries without using a RPC
> mechanism? If yes how to do it?
>
> Based on literature available on Thrift I got an understanding that I can
> use libraries written in other prog languages only if I use a Client-Server
> kind of a model using Thrift with Server exposing the libs as a servce.
>
> Please correct me and provide me guidance.
>
> Regards
>
> Rajendra
>
>
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