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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

Testing the installation


To test whether Apache Thrift is installed and works properly, we will generate some code for a service, which does nothing. Don't worry; we will get straight to your first fully-working application in Chapter 3, Running Your First Apache Thrift Service and Client. Now is the time to just check whether everything is in place.

Use the following code in Apache Thrift's IDL and put it in some file, that is, test.thrift:

# this is just a Test service, which contains two methods

service Test {

    # this method probably does nothing
    void donothing(),

    # this method probably multiplies two numbers
    i32 multiply(1:i32 number1, 2:i32 number2),

}

Tip

Downloading the example code

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