[THRIFT-251] Omniprotocol to have multi protocol over single services

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C++ - Library
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jérémie BORDIER
• Created: 06/Jan/09 00:34
• Updated: 08/Dec/15 22:08

Description

Inspired by the thrift like framework we have in the company i work for, i think it would be really cool to have an omniprotocol that would recognize and dispatch to real underlying protocols the current message. This would allow having a single service able to process request from other services in an efficient binary protocol, but also serve queries coming over AJAX from the browser via HTTP POST + JSON.

The output protocol will be the input one to get things easier, even if having an output parameter in the URI (in case of HTTP request) could be possible in the future.

We have all the basics to get this feature running, the JSON protocol is fixed (THRIFT-244) and the THttpServer transport now exists for the C++ library (THRIFT-247)

Issue Links

• relates to: THRIFT-66 Java: Allow multiplexing multiple services over a single TCP connection
• relates to: THRIFT-947 Provide a helper method to determine the TProtocol used to serialize some data.
• relates to: THRIFT-1915 Multiplexing Services