thriftproxy

A simple thrift proxy in Python. Handy for intercepting and logging Thrift calls over the network.

Prerequisites

• thrift

Kind of obvious, but you need the Python thrift package. You’ll also need the thrift compiler.

• docopt

Used for cli documentation. Truly the only way to do command line argument parsing

Setup

Generate Thrift Python code

The proxy uses the Python code generated by your thrift compiler, so you’ll need to generate that code.

Add Generated code to sys.path

This is a simple program that relies on Python’s import logic to find the thrift code, so you’l need to add it yourself.

Start the Thrift service

Spin up the “real” Thrift server you want to proxy.

Start the proxy

Follow the usage directions built in to the script.

python thriftproxy.py cql.cassandra.Cassandra.Client 9161 9160

Done

You can now hit the proxy as though it was the Thrift service