RPC is a classical server-client model, where client sends a request to server, and server replies results to client. ThriftS is a micro RPC framework based on Apache Thrift, it is designed to be as simple as possible, and it should be lightweight. Target language is c# and java.

• For .NET, writting in c#, and built on .NET Framework 4.0, no dependencies except Thrift.
• For Java, built on java development kit 1.6. Because java generics erase mechanism itself, uses classmate to support generics serialization.

• No interface description language, using attributes/annotations instead of the Thrift IDL.
• Based on the original encoding rules to implement the serialization and deserialization.
• No Thrift code changed.
• Using binary encoding, support for large data gzip compression.
• Provide service monitoring using HTTP protocol.
• Support connection pool in c# client.

I think it's good time for an example.

c# Contract

[ThriftSContract]
public interface IEmployeeService
{
    [ThriftSOperation]
    void SaveEmployee(Employee emp);
}

java Contract

@ThriftSContract
public interface IEmployeeService {
    @ThriftSOperation
    void saveEmployee(Employee emp);
}

c# Service side

public class EmployeeService : IEmployeeService
{
    public void SaveEmployee(Employee emp)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("client save employee. Id: {0},Name: {1}.", emp.EmployeeId, emp.EmployeeName);
    }
}

var server = new ThriftSServer();
server.Start();

java Service side

public class EmployeeService implements IEmployeeService {
    @Override
    public void saveEmployee(Employee emp){
        System.out.println("client save employee. Id: %s,Name: %s.", emp.getEmployeeId(), emp.getEmployeeName());
    }
}

Service side configuration: ThriftS.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="hostConfiguration" type="ThriftS.Service.HostConfigurationSetion,ThriftS.Service"/>
  </configSections>
  <hostConfiguration defaultHost="default" >
    <hosts>
      <host name="default" thriftPort="8384" httpPort="18384" minThreadPoolSize="5" maxThreadPoolSize="200" clientTimeout="60" useBufferedSockets="false">
        <services>
          <service contract="ThriftS.Test.Contract.IEmployeeService"
                   contractAssembly="ThriftS.Test.Contract"
                   handler="ThriftS.Test.Server.EmployeeService"
                   handlerAssembly="ThriftS.Test.Server" />
        </services>
      </host>
    </hosts>
  </hostConfiguration>
</configuration>

Client side

ThriftSClient client = new ThriftSClient("127.0.0.1", 8384);
var proxy = client.CreateProxy<IEmployeeService>();
var employee = new Employee() { EmployeeId = 18168, EmployeeName = "zeeman" };
proxy.SaveEmployee(employee);

A key feature of ThriftS is performance.

Apache License

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