[THRIFT-4179] sendSynchronousRequest is now technically deprecated

• Type: Dependency upgrade
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Cocoa - Compiler, Cocoa - Library
• Assignee: James E. King III
• Reporter: owen hay
• Created: 20/Apr/17 18:49
• Updated: 10/Oct/19 23:00
• Resolved: 14/Jan/19 15:03

Description

iOS 9 marks the deprecation of the sendSynchronousRequest API. There is a new setup for sending asynch http requests via the NSSession API. This will break thrift generated Cocoa because you rely on bubbling up NSExceptions after a blocking request. Now the approved pattern has changed to a callback oriented architecture. There would likely be changes required to both compiler and library in order to accomodate this. You could also just stitch in a synchronous blocking call using a semaphore block like detailed here:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/11519

But that's not really in the spirit of why apple is deprecating synch requests.