Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

[Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Tim Newsham wrote:
>> Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC
>> of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy
>> been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs
>> are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous
>> environments (especially when they are called JSON) and you
>> really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer
>> on a host foo?
>
> Just because the world is full of XML zealots does not mean that XDR
> (ONC RPC), NDR (DCE RPC)

Well, they sure smell that way. The only non trivial application of
SUN RPC still
in existence that I know of  is NFS (plus its evil twins). I would be
very curious
to know if you have examples of interesting apps using both types of
RPC.

> and others are dead.  Neither of these makes you figure out how
> large the integer on host foo is (thats half the point).

What's your method of portably stuffing a *native* 64 int (the one
from the ILP64 type of
ABIs)?

> I personally like the XDR standard (I can do without NDR and BER/DER).


Here's an honest question: do you really like debugging rpcgen emitted
code?

Thanks,
Roman.