Thrift Examples

An example which demonstrates Client/Server integration and "oneway" asynchronous jobs of Thrift

Contents

• Example.thrift : Thrift Definition file for a service which returns current timestamp and an asynchronous job
• client/PythonClient.py : Python Client which connects to server localhost:9090 and call methods
• client/PhpClientSocket.php : PHP Client which connects to server localhost:9090 and call methods
• client/PhpClientHttp.php : PHP client which connects to an HTTP server which runs on localhost:80 (Note that oneway method doesnt work for PHP HTTP server)
• server/PythonServer.py : Python server which runs on localhost:9090
• server/PhpServerHttp.php : PHP server which runs on localhost:80 (Note that oneway method doesnt work for PHP HTTP server)
• gen-php : Files generated from Example.thrift using 'thrift --gen php:server Example.thrift'
• gen-py : Files generated from Example.thrift using 'thrift --gen py Example.thrift'
• lib : Thrift library files

Example.thrift

This is the example service DDL, which has 2 methods. One to return current time stamp synchronously and one to make a job which takes 10 seconds but work asynchronously

namespace php Example
service Example{
    string showCurrentTimestamp()
    oneway void asynchronousJob()
}

How to run

First you need to create "generated" files using these commands below

thrift --gen php:server Example.thrift
thrift --gen py Example.thrift

Note: You need to comment out the line "include_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/packages/Example/Example_types.php';" from file gen-php/Example/Example.php

Python Server & PHP Client

• cd server && python PythonServer.py
• Call client/PhpClientSocket.php from your browser

Python Server & Python Client

• cd server && python PythonServer.py
• cd client && python PythonClient.py

PHP Server & PHP Client

Note that asynchronous method doesnt work with PHP HTTP Server

• Call client/PhpClientHttp.php from your browser