[THRIFT-636] Create an "include" annotation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Java - Compiler
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nathan Marz
• Created: 20/Nov/09 21:50
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 26/Mar/10 23:16

Description

The intention of this idea is to minimize the amount of typing necessary to navigate thrift structures. The idea is to be able to "include" a field within a struct, like so (I don't know the syntax of Thrift annotations but this is the idea):

struct B {
1: required i32 f1;
2: required i32 f2;
}

struct A {

1: @include required B b;
2: required i32 field2;
}

If we have an instance of A named "a", we can access the inner B's fields by saying "a.get_f1()".

There's the obvious problem of name conflicts, but I think it's fine to leave it to the programmer to make sure the code is safe.

Issue Links

• depends upon: THRIFT-564 Annotations for struct fields