[jira] [Created] (THRIFT-6437) Erlang: let the JSON protocol parse a message incrementally

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

Jens Geyer created THRIFT-6437:
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             Summary: Erlang: let the JSON protocol parse a message incrementally
                 Key: THRIFT-6437
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-6437
             Project: Thrift
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Erlang - Library
            Reporter: Jens Geyer


{{thrift_json_protocol}} hands a received message to {{thrift_json_parser}}, which turns the whole message into a list of parse events before the protocol reads its first field. For a message made of many small elements that event list is many times larger than the message, and it is kept until the whole message has been read.

Proposed change: let the parser produce its events on demand, so that the protocol consumes them as it reads and the memory in use follows the value being read rather than the whole message.

_Drafted with AI assistance (Claude Opus 5.5); reviewed and filed by Jens Geyer._



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