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Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack with an associated code generation mechanism for RPC. Thrift provides clean abstractions for data transport, data serialization, and application level processing. The code generation system takes a simple definition language as its input and generates code across programming languages that uses the abstracted stack to build interoperable RPC clients and servers.
Thrift makes it easy for programs written in different programming languages to share data and call remote procedures. With support for over 20 programming languages, chances are Thrift supports the ones that you currently use.
Thrift is specifically designed to support non-atomic version changes across client and server code.
For more details on Thrift's design and implementation, take a gander at the Thrift whitepaper included in this distribution or at the README.md file in your particular subdirectory of interest.
thrift/
compiler/
Contains the Thrift compiler, implemented in C++.
lib/
Contains the Thrift software library implementation, subdivided by
language of implementation.
cpp/
go/
java/
php/
py/
rb/
...
test/
Contains sample Thrift files and test code across the target programming
languages.
tutorial/
Contains a basic tutorial that will teach you how to develop software
using Thrift.
See http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install for an up-to-date list of build requirements.
More information about Thrift can be obtained on the Thrift webpage at:
http://thrift.apache.org
Thrift was inspired by pillar, a lightweight RPC tool written by Adam D'Angelo, and also by Google's protocol buffers.
Use Homebrew to install the dependencies:
brew install autoconf automake bison pkg-config boost
If you are building from the first time out of the source repository, you will need to generate the configure scripts. (This is not necessary if you downloaded a tarball.) From the top directory, do:
./bootstrap.sh
From the top directory, do:
export CXXFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated-copy-with-user-provided-copy
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/bison/bin:$PATH"
./configure --enable-libs=no
cd compiler/cpp
make
Note that some language packages must be installed manually using build tools better suited to those languages (at the time of this writing, this applies to Java, Ruby, PHP).
Look for the README.md file in the lib// folder for more details on the installation of each language library package.
There are a large number of client library tests that can all be run from the top-level directory.
make -k check
This will make all of the libraries (as necessary), and run through the unit tests defined in each of the client libraries. If a single language fails, the make check will continue on and provide a synopsis at the end.
To run the cross-language test suite, please run:
make cross
This will run a set of tests that use different language clients and servers.
To build the same way Travis CI builds the project you should use docker. We have comprehensive building instructions for docker.