Value converters - SolalPirelli/ThriftSharp GitHub Wiki

Thrift doesn't have many primitive types, which means some types of data have to be transmitted in less-than-ideal ways. However, it doesn't have to stay that way after transmission.

Enter value converters. They allow you to implement a converter from a Thrift type to another type.

These converters can be applied to struct fields, method return types, method parameters and method exceptions using the Converter named parameter like so:

// inside a class
[ThriftField( 1, true, "date", Converter = typeof( ThriftUnixDateConverter )]
public DateTime Date { get; set; }

N.B.: An Unix timestamp is the number of seconds from 01.01.1970 00:00:00 UTC. A Java timestamp is the same with milliseconds.

Implement the IThriftValueConverter<TFrom, TTo> interface. It contains two methods: TTo Convert( TFrom value ) and TFrom ConvertBack( TTo value ).