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by 124816
5848 days ago
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Good post. Another focus of Thrift (and Google's "protocol buffers", its inspiration) is that modifying your RPCs in a forward compatible way should be easy and have well defined semantics. (Thus the need for a tagged-base stream.) And, old clients should continue to handle new data in an acceptable manner. (i.e. They should not discard new fields that they do not know about.) IMO Thrift/protobufs also add a lot of value having a single file to describe the shared protocol, compared to e.g. JSON, where it tends to be more ad-hoc or "look at example results for reference." |
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