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Learning Apache Thrift
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Learning Apache Thrift

by Krzysztof Rakowski
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
4h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing the Apache Thrift document

Apache Thrift allows us to have a more complicated structure of the documents than a single file. It is especially useful if you want to have a set of basic tools to include in different services.

In our simple example, let's say we want to have a basic service, which allows logging messages to file. Any other service that we build has to have this capability. We also want some basic exceptions defined that are universal and can be used in any service, regardless of its specifics.

Therefore, we will split our definition into two Apache Thrift documents:

  • mybase.thrift will contain basic universal components
  • mytoolbox.thrift will contain our specific service

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