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Thrift Go Software Library
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License
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=======
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Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
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distributed with this work for additional information
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regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
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to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
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software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
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KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
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specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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Using Thrift with Go
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====================
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In following Go conventions, we reccomend you use the 'go' tool to install
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Thrift for go.
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$ go get git.apache.org/thrift.git/lib/go/thrift
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Will install the last stable release.
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A note about optional fields
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============================
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The thrift-to-Go compiler tries to represent thrift IDL structs as Go structs.
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We must be able to distinguish between optional fields that are set to their
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default value and optional values which are actually unset, so the generated
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code represents optional fields via pointers.
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This is generally intuitive and works well much of the time, but Go does not
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have a syntax for creating a pointer to a constant in a single expression. That
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is, given a struct like
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struct SomeIDLType {
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OptionalField *int32
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}
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, the following will not compile:
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x := &SomeIDLType{
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OptionalField: &(3),
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}
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(Nor is there any other syntax that's built in to the language)
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As such, we provide some helpers that do just this under lib/go/thrift/. E.g.,
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x := &SomeIDLType{
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OptionalField: thrift.Int32Ptr(3),
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}
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And so on. The code generator also creates analogous helpers for user-defined
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typedefs and enums.
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