Thriftify

Thrift compiler as a service.
Help you avoid compiling the whole thrift package just to get thrift bindings for a thrift IDL file.

Written by Eran Sandler (@erans)
http://eran.sandler.co.il
http://forecastcloudy.net (@forecastcloudy)

Inspired by a set of tweets by @scode and @rantav
https://twitter.com/rantav/status/189643309172539392

Contributors

• Ran Tavory (@rantav)

Installation

• Install tornado (sudo pip install tornado, or see http://www.tornadoweb.org/)
• Install simplejson (sudo easy_install simplejson, or pip install)
• Install thrift (http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/). YMMV but here's a simple recepie for OS X using brew:
  • brew update
  • brew install boost
  • brew install libevent
  • Download thrift from http://thrift.apache.org/download/ and unzip
  • cd thrift-x.x.x
  • ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --with-boost=/usr/local/Cellar/boost --with-libevent=/usr/local/Cellar/libevent --disable-static
  • make install
  • validate and run thrift from: /usr/local/bin/thrift
• Copy prod_settings.py to settings.py (or symlink, YMMV).
• Run src/thriftify.py