thtp-js provides a THTP (Thrift-RPC over HTTP) client for Javascript. Written
in ES6, it provides most of the features of the Ruby client, namely persistent
pooled connections, timeouts, and transparent serialisation/deserialisation of
Thrift requests and responses.
For more details about uses cases, the protocol, or server implementation, check out THTP.
The THTP client requires Thrift definitions which have been augmented to expose
the args and result structs for each RPC. This can be achieved by adding a step
to the Thrift compilation process: once thrift has been run and js:node
definitions have been created, run
# Set to wherever your definitions are outputted
output_dir=target/gen-nodejs
# Modify files (saving originals as *.bak)
find $output_dir -iname '*Service.js' -type f -exec sed -i.bak -E 's/^var ([A-Za-z0-9_]*(_args|_result)) =/var \1 = exports.\1 =/' {} \;For each rpc Service.do_action, this will export Service_do_thing_args and
Service_do_thing_result, the structs that Thrift-RPC uses under the hood to
manage request/response bodies.