Thrift: Is it possible to do only serialization with C++ Thrift library?

Question

With C++ Apache Thrift library, is it possible to use only Serialization/Deserialization and not use RPC services?

As I understand from this page, it is possible to

Answer 1

In c++ you can use the TFileTransport:

boost::shared_ptr transport(new TFileTransport(filename));
boost::shared_ptr protocol(new TBinaryProtocol(transport));
yourObj.write(protocol.get()); // to write

or

yourObj.read(protocol.get()); // to read