Thrift Erlang Software Library

License

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Differences from upstream

• Reads and writes are validated.
• Enum values are atoms.
• Maps represented with native Erlang maps.
• Sets represented with ordsets.

Release Notes

0.9.2

as of 0.9.2 struct and function naming conventions have changed. to retain the old naming conventions (for backwards compatibility) use the compiler option legacynames

Example

Example session using thrift_client:

1> {ok, C0} = thrift_client_util:new("localhost", 9090, thrift_test_thrift, []), ok.
ok
2> {C1, R1} = thrift_client:call(C0, testVoid, []), R1.
{ok,ok}
3> {C2, R2} = thrift_client:call(C1, testVoid, [asdf]), R2.
{error,{bad_args,testVoid,[asdf]}}
4> {C3, R3} = thrift_client:call(C2, testI32, [123]), R3.
{ok,123}
5> {C4, R4} = thrift_client:call(C3, testOneway, [1]), R4.
{ok,ok}
6> {C5, R5} = thrift_client:call(C4, testXception, ["foo"]), R5.
{error,{no_function,testXception}}
7> {C6, R6} = thrift_client:call(C5, testException, ["foo"]), R6.
{ok,ok}
8> {C7, R7} = (catch thrift_client:call(C6, testException, ["Xception"])), R7.
{exception,{xception,1001,<<"Xception">>}}