[THRIFT-2449] Enhance typedef structure to distinguish between forwards and real typedefs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.2
• Component/s: Compiler (General), Delphi - Compiler
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Jens Geyer
• Reporter: Jens Geyer
• Created: 05/Apr/14 09:48
• Updated: 13/Apr/14 22:37
• Resolved: 13/Apr/14 20:04

Description

For some languages (namely Delphi), we need the ability to distinguish the created typedefs between real IDL typedefs and forwards created by THRIFT-2421 on-the-fly. This is important, because code generation is different for both cases.

Issue Links

• depends upon: THRIFT-2421 Tree/Recursive struct support in thrift