docs/thrift/content.md

What Is Thrift

The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and other languages.

Read more about Thrift.

How To Use This Image

This is image is intended to run as an executable. Files are provided by mounting a directory. Here's an example of compiling service.thrift to ruby to the current directory.

docker run -v "$(pwd):/data" thrift thrift -o /data --gen rb /data/service.thrift

Note, that you may want to include -u $(id -u) to set the UID on generated files. The thrift process runs as root by default which will generate root owned files depending on your docker setup.