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Thrift Go Software Library

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Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Using Thrift with Go

In following Go conventions, we recommend you use the 'go' tool to install Thrift for go.

$ go get git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git/lib/go/thrift

Will retrieve and install the most recent version of the package.

A note about optional fields

The thrift-to-Go compiler tries to represent thrift IDL structs as Go structs. We must be able to distinguish between optional fields that are set to their default value and optional values which are actually unset, so the generated code represents optional fields via pointers.

This is generally intuitive and works well much of the time, but Go does not have a syntax for creating a pointer to a constant in a single expression. That is, given a struct like

struct SomeIDLType {
	OptionalField *int32
}

, the following will not compile:

x := &SomeIDLType{
	OptionalField: &(3),
}

(Nor is there any other syntax that's built in to the language)

As such, we provide some helpers that do just this under lib/go/thrift/. E.g.,

x := &SomeIDLType{
	OptionalField: thrift.Int32Ptr(3),
}

And so on. The code generator also creates analogous helpers for user-defined typedefs and enums.

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