Thrift client on Android

问题

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 java code generated by the thrift compiler.

1. How do I need to start? How do I add the thrift library to my project? Do I need to compile it myself and if yes how should I accomplish this to be android compatible?

2. Can I directly use the auto generated functions similar to this

   public void getProduct(int productID, org.apache.thrift.async.AsyncMethodCallback resultHandler)
   

   to make asynchronous calls to my service so that I follow the android best practices? Or does using this function block my application in any way or is there another way to be preferred over this on android?

I use the current version of googles ADT (eclipse). My app needs to run just on android 4+ devices (I set the minSdkVersion to 15).

回答1:

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);
   

you need to execute it as an Android AsyncTask: AsyncTask | Android Developers

回答2:

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.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19141177/thrift-client-on-android