[Xorp-hackers] Thrift RPC support

[Dan Mihai Dumitriu]

That is pretty much what I was thinking. We may implement the xrl in Java
for this project, and if so we'll send patches.

Cheers,
Dan


On Aug 29, 2011 4:58 PM, "Ben Greear" <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2011 06:16 PM, Dan Mihai Dumitriu wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply. I was just curious.
>>
>> I don't necessarily think that Thrift is better than what is there
>> now. However, I want to write an interface to the RIB in Java, so the
>> cross language issue came up. Do you have any suggestion, other than
>> building it from scratch? :)
>
> Seems like we could make the code that generates the c++ code from
templates
> generate java classes as well. And would have to re-implement the xrl core
> logic in java.
>
> That probably wouldn't be too difficult, but I don't have time or interest
to
> do it myself. I'd be happy to consider patches if someone else wants to
work
> on it, however...
>
> Or, depending on your needs, you might be able to hard-code some java-xrl
stuff without
> using template-generated java code, or even have the java code call c++
programs
> that do the messaging.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Ben Greear<greearb at candelatech.com>
wrote:
>>> On 08/26/2011 03:54 PM, Dan Mihai Dumitriu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> A couple of years ago some work was started to lay the groundwork for
>>>> supporting Thrift as the RPC mechanism. I was just wondering what the
>>>> status of that is. It seems kind of dead from the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> (
http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/pipermail/xorp-hackers/2009-November/002242.html
)
>>>
>>> I don't think anyone is working on it, and unless someone can explain
why
>>> it would be better than what we have now, I'm not overly excited about
>>> accepting patches that add dependencies on external frameworks.
>>>
>>> Do you have some project in mind that would benefit from using Thrift?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ben Greear<greearb at candelatech.com>
>>> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
>>>
>
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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