| Thrift Tutorial | 
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 | Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com) | 
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 | Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license. | 
 | Please see the included LICENSE file. | 
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 | Tutorial | 
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 | 1) First things first, you'll need to install the Thrift compiler and the | 
 |    language libraries. Do that using the instructions in the top level | 
 |    README file. | 
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 | 2) Read tutorial.thrift to learn about the syntax of a Thrift file | 
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 | 3) Run tutorial.thrift to compile the code: | 
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 |      ./tutorial.thrift | 
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 | 4) Take a look at the generated code. | 
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 | 5) Look in the language directories for sample client/server code. | 
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 | 6) That's about it for now. This tutorial is intentionally brief. It should be | 
 |    just enough to get you started and ready to build your own project. |