[THRIFT-5282] Add IPv6 client support to Lua library

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Lua - Library
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Flags: Patch, Important
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/2243
• Assignee: Jeffrey Han
• Reporter: Jeffrey Han
• Created: 24/Sep/20 17:38
• Updated: 11/Feb/21 22:27
• Resolved: 15/Dec/20 20:05

Description

The Lua library only supports TCP connections over IPv4 sockets. Add IPv6 support to the Thrift client in l_socket_create_and_connect() only, which is the usual code flow.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2243