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Learning Apache Thrift

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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Apache Thrift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Generating and Running Code in Different Languages
Index

Handling exceptions in Apache Thrift


The errors that you have to care about most in your cross-language applications using Apache Thrift are runtime errors, over which you probably don't have much control. You may not be able to ensure that networks always work flawlessly and hosts are reachable, required files are accessible, and that all data is provided in the required format. Thus, you need to prepare for the worst-case scenario when none of them is working.

Every error has its own specific solution or measure that can be taken to handle it. You have to evaluate your situation and apply the relevant solution; for example, in some applications, when the host is unreachable, it is enough to try to connect to it repeatedly (this is common in mobile applications or when you try to connect to a well-known and relatively reliable third-party service, such as Google or Facebook), while in others, it is better to send a notification to the person responsible (for example, when your host is in...