Learning Apache Thrift

Learning Apache Thrift

Overview of this book

With modern software systems being increasingly complex, providing a scalable communication architecture for applications in different languages is tedious. The Apache Thrift framework is the solution to this problem! It helps build efficient and easy-to-maintain services and offers a plethora of options matching your application type by supporting several popular programming languages, including C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml, and Delphi. This book will help you set aside the basics of service-oriented systems through your first Apache Thrift-powered app. Then, progressing to more complex examples, it will provide you with tips for running large-scale applications in production environments. You will learn how to assess when Apache Thrift is the best tool to be used. To start with, you will run a simple example application, learning the framework's structure along the way; you will quickly advance to more complex systems that will help you solve various real-life problems. Moreover, you will be able to add a communication layer to every application written in one of the popular programming languages, with support for various data types and error handling. Further, you will learn how pre-eminent companies use Apache Thrift in their popular applications. This book is a great starting point if you want to use one of the best tools available to develop cross-language applications in service-oriented architectures.

Learning Apache Thrift

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Introducing Apache Thrift

Distributed systems and their services

An introduction to Apache Thrift

Apache Thrift and others

When to choose Apache Thrift

Summary

Installing and Running Apache Thrift

Installing Apache Thrift on Linux

Installing Apache Thrift on Mac OS X

Installing Apache Thrift on Windows

Testing the installation

Summary

Running Your First Apache Thrift Service and Client

Creating necessary project files

Running the code

Analyzing the code

Summary

Understanding How Apache Thrift Works

Prepare your tools

Apache Thrift's architecture

Apache Thrift's type system

IDL syntax

Summary

Generating and Running Code in Different Languages

PHP

Java

Python

JavaScript

Ruby

C++

Summary

Handling Errors in Apache Thrift

What are the type of errors that can occur?

What are exceptions and how to handle them?

Handling exceptions in Apache Thrift

Summary

An Example Client-Server Application

Our example application

Planning out your work

Getting a general idea of the example application

A technical overview of the application

Preparing the Apache Thrift document

Implementing the server

Implementing and running clients

Further testing and other exercises

Summary

Advanced Usage of Apache Thrift

Apache Thrift in production

Real-world examples of the usage of Apache Thrift

Summary

Index

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Java

Java is another programming language, which is extremely popular these days. Used not only for desktop applications, but also in the web applications in the embedded devices or on the mobile phones and tablets (Android being a notable case), Apache Thrift is used in all of those scenarios.

Generating the code

Apache Thrift's compiler offers lots of options for Java. Run the following command to see them:

$ thrift --help

Look for the information about Java generators:

  java (Java):
    beans:           Members will be private, and setter methods will return void.
    private-members: Members will be private, but setter methods will return 'this' like usual.
    nocamel:         Do not use CamelCase field accessors with beans.
    fullcamel:       Convert underscored_accessor_or_service_names to camelCase.
    android:         Generated structures are Parcelable.
    android_legacy:  Do not use java.io.IOException(throwable) (available for Android 2.3 and above).
    java5:          ...

Learning Apache Thrift

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Generating the code