libthrift

Apache Thrift C++ library.

Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. Thrift provides clean abstractions and implementations for data transport, data serialization, and application level processing. The code generation system takes a simple definition language as input and generates code across programming languages that uses the abstracted stack to build interoperable RPC clients and servers.

This package contains the C++ runtime library that needs to be linked to any application that wishes to use the Thrift-generated C++ code.

Usage

The package provides the following libraries (see the documentation for background):

lib{thrift}    (depends on openssl for SSL support)
lib{thriftnb}  (depends on libevent, on openssl for SSL support)
lib{thriftz}   (depends on zlib)

The libraries except lib{thrift} are optional and are disabled by default. Additionally, SSL support in lib{thrift} and lib{thriftnb} is optional and is disabled by default. These optional features can be enabled with the following configuration variables:

config [bool] config.libthrift.openssl  ?= false
config [bool] config.libthrift.libevent ?= false
config [bool] config.libthrift.zlib     ?= false

For example, if you wish to use both lib{thrift} and lib{thriftz} in your application with SSL support, then you can add the following to your manifest:

depends:
\
libthrift ^0.17.0
{
  require
  {
    config.libthrift.openssl = true
    config.libthrift.zlib = true
  }
}
\

And the following to your buildfile:

import libs = libthrift%lib{thrift thriftz}