NOTE: This is a copy (not a fork) of the current (as of October 20 2014) state of https://github.com/apache/thrift node.js library.

It's only purpose is because I need the 0.9.2 code in an app but Apache Thrift have not released it after 3 months as a release candidate. It fixes a major issue where TCP connections throw unhandleable errors if they ever disconnect unexpectedly (which is comon occurence in real life). Npm also has no way to refer to a module that is not at the root of the repo by commitish so I needed top copy just the node part into a new repo just to get it to install with NPM.

This does NOT add any changes and may NOT keep in-sync with upstream. If you really need Thrift server for node.js and 0.9.2 still isn't out you might use this temporarily but no warranty etc...

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npm install thrift 

You can compile IDL sources for Node.js with the following command:

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();
});

Since JavaScript represents all numbers as doubles, int64 values cannot be accurately represented naturally. To solve this, int64 values in responses will be wrapped with Thirft.Int64 objects. The Int64 implementation used is broofa/node-int64.

• yukim/node_cassandra

An example based on the one shown on the Thrift front page is included in the examples/ folder.