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Los Alamos Al
Los Alamos Al

Reputation: 187

Can Apache Thrift use multiple transports for a single server?

I have a server with many lightweight methods and one heavyweight method. I can't seem to find evidence that Apache Thrift supports multiple transports for a server. What I'd like is shared memory for all but the heavyweight method and TCP/IP (distributed) for the heavyweight method. I could break it into two servers but that sort of breaks the goal of encapsulation (I think).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 579

Answers (1)

JensG
JensG

Reputation: 13411

If you really mean transports - not directly. What is possible is to have the handler as a separate entity that can be re-used, e.g. with a different protocol/transport stack.

As it sounds, the best solution in your case would indeed be to have two servers with two different protocol/transport stack, both using the same handler code, but implementing different Thrift services.

                              +----------------+
       +----- uses ---------> | LWService      | <-------+
       |                      +----------------+         |
       |                                             implements
       |                                                 |
+------+-----------+                               +-----+-----+
|                  |                               |           |
|                  |                               |           |
|  Client          |                               | Handler   |
|                  |                               |           |
|                  |                               |           |
|                  |                               |           |
|                  |                               |           |
|                  |                               +-----+-----+
+------+-----------+                                     |
       |                                              implements
       |                      +----------------+         |
       +---- uses ----------> | HeavyService   | <-------+
                              +----------------+

Upvotes: 4

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