THRIFT-6170: Add a GitHub Actions CI job for the D library Nothing in CI built or ran lib/d. build.yml had jobs for php, go, java-kotlin, netstd, haxe, rust, python, nodejs, cpp and ruby, and its shared CONFIG_ARGS_FOR_LIBS passed --without-d; docker.yml only builds and validates the images. A regression in lib/d could only be found by someone building D by hand, which is how THRIFT-6168 had to be verified. Most of the pieces already existed: the docker images pin dmd 2.087.0 and the deimos header sets, configure.ac has AX_DMD and gates the libevent and OpenSSL parts, and lib/d/Makefile.am already lists the debug and release unittest binaries in TESTS. So the job installs dmd the way the images do, bootstraps, configures with --with-d and the other bindings off, and runs make -C lib/d check. The thrift compiler artifact is needed because lib/d/test generates from .thrift sources. Four things that are easy to get wrong here. The deimos OpenSSL bindings are deliberately not installed. They are in the docker images, but lib/d's OpenSSL modules do not link against the OpenSSL 3.x that ubuntu-24.04 ships -- ERR_put_error was dropped in 3.0 and SSL_get_peer_certificate renamed to SSL_get1_peer_certificate, so the first SSL unittest binary fails at link with two undefined references. Leaving the headers out makes configure report "Building D SSL tests: no", which drops those five modules from both the library and the test set. This is a real lib/d gap rather than a CI one, filed as THRIFT-6185; the step carries a comment saying to add the headers back once that is closed. The libevent bindings are installed and their modules are covered. dmd is installed with apt rather than dpkg, because the deb depends on libcurl4 and dpkg --install leaves the package unconfigured instead of pulling it in. The configure line matches --without-d with a word boundary. Without it sed rewrites the first match in the argument list, which is --without-dart, and the job would build Dart instead of D. And the configure step checks that dmd was actually found. configure disables a binding it cannot locate rather than failing, so without that check a job whose toolchain step had quietly stopped working would keep reporting success while running no tests at all, which is worse than having no job. Verified end to end on a clean ubuntu:24.04 with the job's own steps: 92 unittest binaries pass and 0 fail (43 modules in debug and release, less the SSL ones), followed by lib/d/test's client_pool_test and transport_test, both passing. With dmd removed the job fails at configure rather than passing. Client: d Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. Thrift provides clean abstractions and implementations for data transport, data serialization, and application level processing. The code generation system takes a simple definition language as input and generates code across programming languages that uses the abstracted stack to build interoperable RPC clients and servers.
Thrift makes it easy for programs written in different programming languages to share data and call remote procedures. With support for 28 programming languages, chances are Thrift supports the languages that you currently use.
Thrift is specifically designed to support non-atomic version changes across client and server code. This allows you to upgrade your server while still being able to service older clients; or have newer clients issue requests to older servers. An excellent community-provided write-up about thrift and compatibility when versioning an API can be found in the Thrift Missing Guide.
For more details on Thrift's design and implementation, see the Thrift whitepaper included in this distribution, or at the README.md file in your particular subdirectory of interest.
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thrift/
compiler/
Contains the Thrift compiler, implemented in C++.
lib/
Contains the Thrift software library implementation, subdivided by language of implementation. cpp/ go/ java/ php/ py/ rb/ ...
test/
Contains sample Thrift files and test code across the target programming languages.
tutorial/
Contains a basic tutorial that will teach you how to develop software using Thrift.
To build the same way Travis CI builds the project you should use docker. We have comprehensive building instructions for docker.
See http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install for a list of build requirements (may be stale). Alternatively, see the docker build environments for a list of prerequisites.
More information about Thrift can be obtained on the Thrift webpage at:
http://thrift.apache.org
Thrift was inspired by pillar, a lightweight RPC tool written by Adam D‘Angelo, and also by Google’s protocol buffers.
If you are building from the first time out of the source repository, you will need to generate the configure scripts. (This is not necessary if you downloaded a tarball.) From the top directory, do:
./bootstrap.sh
Once the configure scripts are generated, thrift can be configured. From the top directory, do:
./configure
You may need to specify the location of the boost files explicitly. If you installed boost in /usr/local, you would run configure as follows:
./configure --with-boost=/usr/local
Note that by default the thrift C++ library is typically built with debugging symbols included. If you want to customize these options you should use the CXXFLAGS option in configure, as such:
./configure CXXFLAGS='-g -O2' ./configure CFLAGS='-g -O2' ./configure CPPFLAGS='-DDEBUG_MY_FEATURE'
To enable gcov required options -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage enable them:
./configure --enable-coverage
Run ./configure --help to see other configuration options
Please be aware that the Python library will ignore the --prefix option and just install wherever Python's distutils puts it (usually along the lines of /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/). If you need to control where the Python modules are installed, set the PY_PREFIX variable. (DESTDIR is respected for Python and C++.)
Make thrift:
make
From the top directory, become superuser and do:
make install
Uninstall thrift:
make uninstall
Note that some language packages must be installed manually using build tools better suited to those languages (at the time of this writing, this applies to Java, Ruby, PHP).
Look for the README.md file in the lib// folder for more details on the installation of each language library package.
Apache Thrift is available via a number of package managers, a list which is is steadily growing. A more detailed overview can be found at the Apache Thrift web site under “Libraries” and/or in the respective READMEs for each language under /lib
There are a large number of client library tests that can all be run from the top-level directory.
make -k check
This will make all of the libraries (as necessary), and run through the unit tests defined in each of the client libraries. If a single language fails, the make check will continue on and provide a synopsis at the end.
To run the cross-language test suite, please run:
make cross
This will run a set of tests that use different language clients and servers.