NAME

Thrift::Parser - A Thrift message (de)serialization OO representation

SYNOPSIS

use Thrift;
use Thrift::Parser;
use Thrift::IDL;

my $parser = Thrift::Parser->new(
    idl => Thrift::IDL->parse_thrift_file('tutorial.thrift'),
    service => 'Calculator',
);

## Parse a payload

# Obtain a Thrift::Protocol subclass somehow with a loaded buffer
my $buffer   = ...;
my $protocol = Thrift::BinaryProtocol->new($buffer);

my $message = $parser->parse_message($protocol);

print "Received method call " . $message->method->name . "\n";

## Use the auto-generated classes to create request/responses

my $request = tutorial::Calculator::add->compose_message_call(
  num1 => 15,
  num2 => 33,
);

my $response = $request->compose_reply(48);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides strict typing and full object orientation of all the Thrift types. It allows you, with a Thrift::IDL object, to create a parser which can parse any Thrift::Protocol object into a message object, and creates dynamic classes according to the IDL specification, allowing you to create method calls, objects, and responses.

METHODS

new

my $parser = Thrift::Parser->new(
  idl => Thrift::IDL->parse_thrift_file('..'),
  service => 'myServiceName',
)

Creates the Parser object and dynamic classes from the IDL file.

parse_message

my $message = $parser->parse_message($transport);

Given a Thrift::Transport object, the parser will create a Thrift::Parser::Message object.

full_docs_to_dir

$parser->full_docs_to_dir($dir, $format);

Using the dynamically generated classes, this will create 'pod' or 'pm' files in the target directory in the following format:

$dir/tutorial::Calculator::testVars.pod
(or with format 'pm')
$dir/tutorial/Calculator/testVars.pm

The directory will be created if it doesn't exist.

INTERNAL METHODS

parse_structure

my $fieldset = $parser->parse_structure($transport, $thrift_idl_method->arguments);

Returns a Thrift::Parser::FieldSet. Attempts to read a structure off the transport, using an array of Thrift::IDL::Field objects to define the specification of the structure.

parse_type

my $typed_value = $parser->parse_type($transport, { idl => $thrift_idl_type_object || type => 4 });

Reads a single value off the transport and returns it as an object in a Thrift::Parser::Type subclass.

idl_type_class

my $parser_type_class = $parser->idl_type_class($thrift_idl_type_object);

Maps the given Thrift::IDL::Type object to one in my parser namespace. If it's a custom type, it'll map into a dynamic class.

resolve_idl_type

my $thrift_idl_type_object = $parser->resolve_idl_type($thrift_idl_custom_type_object);

Returns the base Thrift::IDL::Type object from the given Thrift::IDL::Type::Custom object

SEE ALSO

Thrift, Thrift::IDL

DEVELOPMENT

This module is being developed via a git repository publicly available at http://github.com/ewaters/thrift-parser. I encourage anyone who is interested to fork my code and contribute bug fixes or new features, or just have fun and be creative.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009 Eric Waters and XMission LLC (http://www.xmission.com/). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

AUTHOR

Eric Waters <ewaters@gmail.com>

cpanm Thrift::Parser

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Thrift::Parser