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

If you simply want to serialize into bytes (without having to write to a file), you can use TMemoryBuffer.

boost::shared_ptr buffer(new TMemoryBuffer());
boost::shared_ptr binaryProtcol(new TBinaryProtocol(buffer));

obj->write(binaryProtcol.get());
obj->read((binaryProtcol.get()));