[jira] Commented: (THRIFT-636) Create an "include" annotation

["David Reiss (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Reiss commented on THRIFT-636:
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So you are proposing that the object structure would stay the same and we would just add extra methods to save you from typing a.get_b().get_f1() (or a.b.f1 if you are not using the beans style)?

> Create an "include" annotation
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-636
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-636
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compiler (Java)
>            Reporter: Nathan Marz
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The intention of this idea is to minimize the amount of typing necessary to navigate thrift structures. The idea is to be able to "include" a field within a struct, like so (I don't know the syntax of Thrift annotations but this is the idea):
> struct B {
>   1: required i32 f1;
>   2: required i32 f2;
> }
> struct A {
>   1: @include required B b;
>   2: required i32 field2;
> }
> If we have an instance of A named "a", we can access the inner B's fields by saying "a.get_f1()". 
> There's the obvious problem of name conflicts, but I think it's fine to leave it to the programmer to make sure the code is safe. 

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