| Mark Slee | 07a3aab | 2007-03-07 05:45:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Thrift Tutorial | 
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 | 3 | Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com) | 
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 | 5 | Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license. | 
 | 6 | Please see the included LICENSE file. | 
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 | 8 | Tutorial | 
 | 9 | ======== | 
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 | 11 | 1) First things first, you'll need to install the Thrift compiler and the | 
 | 12 |    language libraries. Do that using the instructions in the top level | 
 | 13 |    README file. | 
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 | 15 | 2) Read tutorial.thrift to learn about the syntax of a Thrift file | 
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| David Reiss | d1c8682 | 2009-03-25 22:15:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | 3) Compile the code for the language of your choice: | 
| Mark Slee | 07a3aab | 2007-03-07 05:45:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 |  | 
| David Reiss | d1c8682 | 2009-03-25 22:15:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 |      $ thrift | 
| David Reiss | 4438ca5 | 2009-03-26 06:14:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 |      $ thrift -r --gen cpp tutorial.thrift | 
| Mark Slee | 07a3aab | 2007-03-07 05:45:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 |  | 
 | 22 | 4) Take a look at the generated code. | 
 | 23 |  | 
 | 24 | 5) Look in the language directories for sample client/server code. | 
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 | 26 | 6) That's about it for now. This tutorial is intentionally brief. It should be | 
 | 27 |    just enough to get you started and ready to build your own project. |