Thrift on iOS

 An example iOS client using Thrift to connect to a NodeJs server.

An example on accessing a Thrift API from an iOS app.

Building the interfaces

Whenever you change a Thrift interface definition, you need to update the generated code for the languages you're using. In our case, we want to build NodeJS and Cocoa bindings:

thrift -o client/ThriftTest --gen cocoa thrift/messaging-service.thrift 
thrift -o server --gen js:node thrift/messaging-service.thrift 

You usually might not want to version-control the generated code, but generate it during build/compile time instead. The code is included here for a quick reference on what it looks like.

Running the server

To run the server:

cd server
npm install
npm start

If you're curious, there's also a NodeJs-based client you can try out by simply running npm run client

Compiling the client

To test this on a real device, deploy the server code to your hosting of choice (eg. Heroku) and change the server URL on client to point to it.

from https://github.com/herval/thrift-ios-nodejs-example