[THRIFT-1199] Union structs should have generated methods to test whether a specific field is currently set

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: Java - Compiler
• Assignee: Piotr Kozikowski
• Reporter: Piotr Kozikowski
• Created: 07/Jun/11 20:29
• Updated: 09/Jun/11 22:33
• Resolved: 08/Jun/11 17:47

Description

For example, in the following union

union MyUnion {
  1: string my_field1;
  2: string my_field2;
}

it would be nice to be able to do something like boolean test = myUnion.is_my_field1; as an alternative to boolean test = (myUnion.getSetField() == _Fields.MY_FIELD1);