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author | Roger Meier <roger@apache.org> | 2014-03-16 21:12:11 +0100 |
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committer | Roger Meier <roger@apache.org> | 2014-03-19 06:47:47 +0100 |
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3520c0179 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +Apache Thrift +============= + +Last Modified: 2014-03-16 + +License +======= + +Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one +or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file +distributed with this work for additional information +regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file +to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the +"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance +with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, +software distributed under the License is distributed on an +"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY +KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the +specific language governing permissions and limitations +under the License. + +Introduction +============ + +Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack with an +associated code generation mechanism for RPC. Thrift provides clean +abstractions for data transport, data serialization, and application +level processing. The code generation system takes a simple definition +language as its input and generates code across programming languages that +uses the abstracted stack to build interoperable RPC clients and servers. + +Thrift is specifically designed to support non-atomic version changes +across client and server code. + +For more details on Thrift's design and implementation, take a gander at +the Thrift whitepaper included in this distribution or at the README.md files +in your particular subdirectory of interest. + +Hierarchy +========= + +thrift/ + + compiler/ + Contains the Thrift compiler, implemented in C++. + + lib/ + Contains the Thrift software library implementation, subdivided by + language of implementation. + + cpp/ + go/ + java/ + php/ + py/ + rb/ + + test/ + + Contains sample Thrift files and test code across the target programming + languages. + + tutorial/ + + Contains a basic tutorial that will teach you how to develop software + using Thrift. + +Requirements +============ + +See http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftRequirements for +an up-to-date list of build requirements. + +Resources +========= + +More information about Thrift can be obtained on the Thrift webpage at: + + http://thrift.apache.org + +Acknowledgments +=============== + +Thrift was inspired by pillar, a lightweight RPC tool written by Adam D'Angelo, +and also by Google's protocol buffers. + +Installation +============ + +If you are building from the first time out of the source repository, you will +need to generate the configure scripts. (This is not necessary if you +downloaded a tarball.) From the top directory, do: + + ./bootstrap.sh + +Once the configure scripts are generated, thrift can be configured. +From the top directory, do: + + ./configure + +You may need to specify the location of the boost files explicitly. +If you installed boost in /usr/local, you would run configure as follows: + + ./configure --with-boost=/usr/local + +Note that by default the thrift C++ library is typically built with debugging +symbols included. If you want to customize these options you should use the +CXXFLAGS option in configure, as such: + + ./configure CXXFLAGS='-g -O2' + ./configure CFLAGS='-g -O2' + ./configure CPPFLAGS='-DDEBUG_MY_FEATURE' + +Run ./configure --help to see other configuration options + +Please be aware that the Python library will ignore the --prefix option +and just install wherever Python's distutils puts it (usually along +the lines of /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/). If you need to control +where the Python modules are installed, set the PY_PREFIX variable. +(DESTDIR is respected for Python and C++.) + +Make thrift: + + make + +From the top directory, become superuser and do: + + make install + +Note that some language packages must be installed manually using build tools +better suited to those languages (at the time of this writing, this applies +to Java, Ruby, PHP). + +Look for the README.md file in the lib/<language>/ folder for more details on the +installation of each language library package. + +Testing +======= + +There are a large number of client library tests that can all be run +from the top-level directory. + + make -k check + +This will make all of the libraries (as necessary), and run through +the unit tests defined in each of the client libraries. If a single +language fails, the make check will continue on and provide a synopsis +at the end. + +To run the cross-language test suite, please run: + + make cross + +This will run a set of tests that use different language clients and +servers. |