[THRIFT-1069] Add command line option to prevent thrift from inserting gen-* directories

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: Compiler (General)

Environment

OSX

• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: JCF
• Reporter: David Trott
• Created: 21/Feb/11 21:29
• Updated: 03/Mar/11 02:24
• Resolved: 01/Mar/11 19:53

Description

I maintain a plug-in to execute thrift under maven:

https://github.com/dtrott/maven-thrift-plugin

The gen-* directories do not add any value for me (I have to add additional code to move the files back up one level after generation - for IDE integration).

Would it be possible to add an additional command line option to either:

• Suppress the insertion of the gen- directory
• or, Allow me to specify the full path to the output directory (without the gen- postfix)