UDP support for server?
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Do you guys have any plans or reservation on adding UDP support to the server?
I assume some changes would have to go into Riffed as well.
@seivan I'm not aware of a UDP transport for Thrift RPC, or at least a commonly used one. We don't have any plans. Some work would need to be done to generalize transports/protocols, likely this might need to be done anyway. Do you have an example?
Oh hey it's @fishcakez !
Yeah I am not aware if the standards for Thrift RPC is meant to support UDP or if it's compatible at all, in which case this ticket can be closed, but I saw http://gruchalski.com/apache-thrift-via-udp-in-erlang.html and thought I would use an existing RPC protocol instead of just dealing with UDP and converting binaries myself.
Right, there's no standard UDP transport for Thrift RPC, but you can certainly ship Thrift-encoded binary data over any transport you like. The linked post shows a custom UDP-based implementation.
As @fishcakez notes, this would be possible to add to elixir-thrift, but we have no plans to develop this support ourselves. You could build upon the serialization capabilities of this library to build something yourself however.