Installing and testing the Erlang bindings for Apache Thrift in OS X Mavericks with Homebrew

Question

While installing thrift with Homebrew in OS X Mavericks, I am not sure the Erlang bindings are getting correctly installed, and I strongly believe they are not.

The command I am running is this:

brew install thrift --with-erlang

I have tried it with --with-python and it seems to install additional files; however, it doesn't appear to do so in the case of Erlang. Also, I don't really know how to test the installation in Erlang to make sure that I am correct.

If this provides any additional insight, the Erlang version I have installed is the .pkg binaries available from Erlang Solutions (the link is currently down).

What should I do to install the Erlang thrift bindings and make sure they work?

Thanks very much!

Answer 1

If anything is installed correctly, a make all or make check in the Erlang lib folder should do.

In that folder, there's also a README file with further instructions and examples: https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/erl/README.md

Example session using thrift_client:

1> {ok, C0} = thrift_client_util:new("localhost", 9090, thriftTest_thrift, []), ok.
ok
2> {C1, R1} = thrift_client:call(C0, testVoid, []), R1.
{ok,ok}
3> {C2, R2} = thrift_client:call(C1, testVoid, [asdf]), R2.
{error,{bad_args,testVoid,[asdf]}}
4> {C3, R3} = thrift_client:call(C2, testI32, [123]), R3.
{ok,123}
5> {C4, R4} = thrift_client:call(C3, testOneway, [1]), R4.
{ok,ok}
6> {C5, R5} = thrift_client:call(C4, testXception, ["foo"]), R5.
{error,{no_function,testXception}}
7> {C6, R6} = thrift_client:call(C5, testException, ["foo"]), R6.
{ok,ok}
8> {C7, R7} = (catch thrift_client:call(C6, testException, ["Xception"])), R7.
{exception,{xception,1001,<<"Xception">>}}