[THRIFT-589] Add Field Name to Field ID Mapping

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.2
• Component/s: Java - Compiler
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Cyrus Katrak
• Reporter: Cyrus Katrak
• Created: 22/Sep/09 23:16
• Updated: 01/Nov/11 02:52
• Resolved: 15/Oct/09 01:25

Description

The reflection stuff in java thrift is quite useful, but to use it you must know the field id (not the name) of the field you are working with.
Given a field name, you can obtain the corresponding ID by iterating through the metaDataMap, but it's not ideal.