Thrift client on Android

Question

I\'m new to android development and want to create an app with a thrift client which is using a thrift server on my network. I already got the thrift definition file and the

Answer 1

Sorry to pile on to an old question. As of February 2016, there is an Android-specific Thrift compiler and client: https://github.com/Microsoft/thrifty.

The classes that it generates use as few methods as possible (much smaller than the Apache implementation), and the generated clients are asynchronous by default.

Answer 2

1. yes, you need to build the thrift-lib for Android by yourself. Android has it's own httpcore that doesn't have a consume-method. here you can find how to change the thrift-library: here instruction After that just add the jar-file to the libs-folder and add it to the build-path.

2. example

   THttpClient hclient = new THttpClient("your/endpoint/url");
   TProtocol protocol = new TBinaryProtocol(hclient); // it depends on your data-format
   Service.Client client = new Service.Client(protocol);
   Product product = client.getProduct(int productID);
   

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