Comments on: Exploring Facebook’s Thrift

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:17:23 +0000

This code Concept seems great, but too many gaps to piece together… can’t you package this up a bit better, and provide a complete example?

By: Nagesh

Nagesh — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:40:15 +0000

please could u help out, i am stuck :-/

By: Nagesh

Nagesh — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:29:01 +0000

Hi Rajesh,
I get the following errors while compiling: g++ calc.cpp
calc.cpp:1:43: error: expected class-name before ‘{’ token
calc.cpp:6:31: error: ‘deal’ does not name a type
calc.cpp:6:37: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘d’ with no type [-fpermissive]
calc.cpp: In member function ‘double SaleHandler::calc_apr(const int&)’:
calc.cpp:13:30: error: request for member ‘payment’ in ‘d’, which is of non-class type ‘const int’
calc.cpp:13:42: error: request for member ‘amtfin’ in ‘d’, which is of non-class type ‘const int’
calc.cpp:13:67: error: request for member ‘term’ in ‘d’, which is of non-class type ‘const int’
calc.cpp:13:71: error: ‘pow’ was not declared in this scope
calc.cpp:14:37: error: request for member ‘term’ in ‘d’, which is of non-class type ‘const int’

By: Looking at Facebook’s Thrift, now an apache incubator project. | Hi, I'm Mat

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:08:12 +0000

[...] Great Thrift Tutorial (edit) [...]

By: Herman Radtke

Herman Radtke — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:39:14 +0000

Hi Rajesh,
I used a C++ server, not a PHP one. The SaleHandler class represents the server. A PHP client and PHP server doesn’t seem like a very efficient use of thrift as there is a significant performance loss by using RPC. If we wanted to offload some of the work onto different PHP scripts, I would opt for something like Gearman.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:03:53 +0000

Herman, Wouldn’t it be good if you post a PHP Server. I mean PHP client and PHP Server. Where Server I want to run on different machine.

I see PHP front end but No PHP Server.

By: Herman Radtke

Herman Radtke — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:33:36 +0000

Hypertable looks cool. Sure, I will download their source and put something together.

By: Matt Day

Matt Day — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:54:11 +0000

hey Herman, I used to work with you at hautelook : D this is an excellent article. I came across it looking for a thrift php example with hypertable. maybe you can whip something up.

Best Regards,
Matthew Day

By: Herman Radtke

Herman Radtke — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:38:55 +0000

I disagree. HipHop is a lot of maintenance and writing a PHP extension is a very small niche skill. You are missing the point of Thrift. With Thrift I can very easily leverage existing code into a service layer with a dynamic language like PHP or Python for the view. Neither HipHop nor a PHP extension give me that kind of flexibility.

By: jbo5112

jbo5112 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:58:02 +0000

This might be seen as a generic example of how to use thrift, but if this is your use case, you should look at Facebook’s HipHop. It compiles php into native code. Another option is writing a php extension in C++. Both of which would avoid overhead of running data transfers between programs and reduce/eliminate the extra overhead that is obvious from the general use case.