Drift is an easy-to-use, annotation-based Java library for creating Thrift clients and serializable types. The client library is similar to JAX-RS (HTTP Rest) and the serialization library is similar to JaxB (XML) and Jackson (JSON), but for Thrift.
The following interface defines a client for a Scribe server:
@ThriftService
public interface Scribe
{
@ThriftMethod
ResultCode log(List<LogEntry> messages);
}The log method above uses the LogEntry Thrift struct which is defined as follows:
@ThriftStruct
public class LogEntry
{
private final String category;
private final String message;
@ThriftConstructor
public LogEntry(String category, String message)
{
this.category = category;
this.message = message;
}
@ThriftField(1)
public String getCategory()
{
return category;
}
@ThriftField(2)
public String getMessage()
{
return message;
}
}An instance of the Scribe client can be created using a DriftClientFactory:
// create a client
Scribe scribe = clientFactory.createDriftClient(Scribe.class);
// use client
scribe.log(Arrays.asList(new LogEntry("category", "message")));- Drift Codec -- Thrift type annotations and serialization
- Drift Client -- Thrift client usage
- Drift Server -- Thrift server usage