[THRIFT-3368] Setting fields in structs via prototype

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: JavaScript - Compiler
• Labels: features
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Sautter
• Created: 07/Oct/15 09:44
• Updated: 07/Oct/15 09:46

Description

If you have a struct and you want to set some fields by prototype (e.g. like a default, that depends on a certain application-state), Thrift does not allow this, because all fields will be "initialized" with null.
Since I see no requirement to do so and the prototype of such a struct is defined, but always empty, I changed the Thrift-JS-Compiler to stop initializing fields with null and enabling the setting of fields via prototype.