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Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift
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Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift

by William Abernethy
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
20h 4m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 6. Apache Thrift IDL

This chapter covers

  • Understanding Interface Definition Languages (IDLs) in software development
  • Using Apache Thrift IDL syntax and semantics
  • Generating code for multiple languages with the Apache Thrift IDL compiler

In this chapter, we’ll examine the features of the Apache Thrift Interface Definition Language (IDL) and learn how to use the Apache Thrift compiler to generate cross-language type serialization and RPC support code (see figure 6.1). We’ll begin by exploring the syntax of the IDL itself and then cover compiler operation, trying out various bits of IDL along the way.

Figure 6.1. Apache Thrift IDL0

6.1. Interfaces

Interfaces exist in hardware and software, defining interactions between components ...

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