Thrift compiler JAR

Multi-platform Thrift compiler.

Executable JAR that packages precompiled Thrift compiler binaries for Windows and Linux systems, providing portability across these platforms. Supports all Thrift versions starting at 0.6.0 for Windows and Linux systems running on aarch64, amd64, armv7, ppc64le, and s390x machines. As Thrift only publishes binaries for Windows, it is impossible to avoid using the embedded binaries and instead download them on the fly.

Usage

The JAR is executable, which means you can run it directly from the terminal. The arguments passed to the JAR will directly be used to run the Thrift compiler. The only exception to this is if the first argument is --thriftversion, this would be used to specify what version of Thrift to use instead.

This is an example of how the JAR would be used to compile example.thrift using Thrift 0.18.0.

java -jar thrift-compiler-jar.jar --thriftversion=0.18.0 -r --gen java example.thrift

Another way this application can be used is through its API. This is an example of how you could invoke the Thrift 0.18.1 compiler to compile example.thrift.

String version = "--thriftversion=0.18.1";
String[] args = { version, "-r", "--gen", "java", "example.thrift" };
new ThriftCompiler(args);

One issue with the above method is that it provides little flexibility. For example, when multiple invocations of the Thrift compiler are necessary, it will extract the binaries for every single one of those invocations. To avoid this, you can instead use the following, more fluent, calls.

String version = "0.18.1";
String[] args = { "-r", "--gen", "java", "example.thrift" };
File binary = ThriftExtractor.extract(version);
ThriftCompiler.run(binary, args);

In the case you need to invoke the compiler multiple times, you can just run the ThriftCompiler#run(File, String[]) call multiple times, to avoid extracting the binary for all executions. If you want to use your own Thrift executable with the application, you can also use your own binaries using this call in the following way.

File customBinary = ...;
String[] args = { "-r", "--gen", "java", "example.thrift" };
ThriftCompiler.run(customBinary, args);

Installation

To install the project, first clone it from GitHub. Then go to the directory it was cloned to and run the Maven install command to install the project to your local Maven repository.

mvn clean install

Then, you can use the project by including the following Maven dependency in your projects.

<dependency>
  <groupId>me.atour</groupId>
  <artifactId>thrift-compiler-jar</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Reproducibility

This project contains precompiled binaries. These can pose large security risks. After all, why would they be trusted? To take away some of these concerns, the used binaries are built transparently using the actions in the amousavigourabi/thrift-binary repository. These builds are designed to be fully reproducible by re-running the actions. This can be done by creating your own fork and triggering the run of the build workflow. By comparing the outputs of this new run and the binaries included in this project, it can be verified that no malicious code was injected in the pre-compiled binaries.