[THRIFT-2859] JSON generator: output complete descriptors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: JSON - Compiler
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Jens Geyer
• Reporter: Stig Bakken
• Created: 26/Nov/14 16:48
• Updated: 29/Dec/14 21:36
• Resolved: 01/Dec/14 22:39

Description

(Someone should probably add a Jira component for the JSON generator.)

The attached pull request contains some improvements to the JSON generator:

1. programs are no longer merged by default, use "--gen json:merge"
2. "index" is renamed to "key" for fields to match the compiler's internal naming
3. types are described in a way that does not require string parsing
4. full support for exceptions, unions, namespaces, includes and required/optional fields