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Does thrift support sending data over websockets?

I would like to use thrift with a Java server sending data to a browser using websockets. Is this possible?

Solution

  • In thrift there are 2 important things: protocol, and transport. Protocol defines how is data serialized into the data stream. And transport defines how are those streams of data exchanged between communicating entites.

    There is json protocol in thrift which is supported by javascript, but as far as transports go I think Thrift supports only 2 transports raw tcp, and http. Later can be used to invoke operation on a HTTP server, and fetch the result from it, but not the other way around as you need it.

    I guess you might be able to use json protocol, but you would need to roll your sleeves up and implement your own websockets transport. This could be a a non trivial task.