Thrift protocol implementation for nodejs. As of version 0.0.1, the basic protocol has been implemented. A Thrift compiler that will generate the .js files from a Thrift specification is being implemented as well, see the Thrift Compiler section below.
NOTE: you must use the framed thrift transport, TFramedTransport in most implementations, on the server side. Using a popular example, this is enabled by default in Cassandra 0.7 (but configuration must be changed in Cassandra 0.6.x and earlier).
npm install thrift
A Thrift compiler is being built in a forked version of the upstream thrift library. You can check it out here: https://github.com/wadey/thrift
Once you build this patched version of Thrift, you can compile nodejs sources by running the following:
thrift --gen js:node thrift_file
Here is a Cassandra example:
var thrift = require('thrift'),
Cassandra = require('./gen-nodejs/Cassandra')
ttypes = require('./gen-nodejs/cassandra_types');
var connection = thrift.createConnection("localhost", 9160),
client = thrift.createClient(Cassandra, connection);
connection.on('error', function(err) {
console.error(err);
});
client.get_slice("Keyspace", "key", new ttypes.ColumnParent({column_family: "ExampleCF"}), new ttypes.SlicePredicate({slice_range: new ttypes.SliceRange({start: '', finish: ''})}), ttypes.ConsistencyLevel.ONE, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
// handle err
} else {
// data == [ttypes.ColumnOrSuperColumn, ...]
}
connection.end();
});
An example based on the one shown on the Thrift front page is included in the examples folder.