Re: RDF Thrift : A binary format for RDF data

On 15/08/14 20:48, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> Do not use x-
> It was thought a good idea, now not.  It just leads to pain when you drop or x- (or decide never to)
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> Where is the actual on the wire format for thrift defined? Does it look like ANS/1 ?

Tim,

RDF Thrift uses the "compact" Thrift protocol (their terminology) wire 
format is defined

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-110
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https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12398366/compact-proto-spec-2.txt

and in the open source code:

Python:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/py/src/protocol/TCompactProtocol.py

Java:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/protocol/TCompactProtocol.java

Ruby:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/rb/lib/thrift/protocol/compact_protocol.rb

and more languages at;
https://github.com/apache/thrift/tree/master/lib


The RDF Thrift usage is at:

http://afs.github.io/rdf-thrift/rdf-binary-thrift.html#details-of-thrift-encoding

If any Thrift expert has suggestions better ways to use Thrift then 
please say so!

 Andy

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> Tim
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> On 2014-08 -15, at 13:08, Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Richard.
>> Yeah.
>> But it can be useful if you agree to mint the same MIME type as other people :-)
>> Would one use "application/rdf+thrift” or "application/rdf+x-thrift”, for example?
>> If I remember correctly, the x- usually indicates an unregistered type, but if the type is expected to get registered one day, then people often use the x-less one in anticipation, for future-proofing.
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>> It is especially useful to use an agreed type if you want to consume other peoples’ services/data (or let them consume yours).
>> Of course I realise that is rather unusual in the SemWeb world, but it does happen ;-)
>>
>> Best
>> Hugh
>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 17:15, Richard Lewis <richard.lewis@gold.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> Hi Hugh,
>>>
>>> While there is a process for registering media types, it's not
>>> necessary for media types to be deposited in some central store in
>>> order to build hypermedia applications using them. In fact, it's quite
>>> common to mint media types specifically for certain applications.
>>>
>>> If your application design follows RESTful principles, there will be
>>> an application state (or probably multiple states) in which the client
>>> can discover the media types of resources he/she may want to
>>> retrieve. So if you want to make "application/rdf+thrift" (for
>>> example) available for some resources in your application, you can go
>>> right ahead; just make sure you tell the client is told that it's
>>> available.
>>>
>>> Just my 2p.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> At Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:36:44 +0100,
>>> Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Looks very useful.
>>>>
>>>> This may be a stoopid question… :-)
>>>> As I am able to use this for network data exchange, presumably I can request it using conneg over http when resolving URIs.
>>>> So I would need a MIME type.
>>>> I see application/x-thrift is required in http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftIntegrationConventions?highlight=%28application%2Fx-thrift%29
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So now the possibly stooped bit…
>>>> Is there a recommended variant for RDF-Thrift?
>>>> Because I might want to ask for the Thrift version of another content-type, such as non-LD JSON.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like the same problem as RDF+XML, since I might want another XML content-type of the document.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> Hugh
>>>>
>>>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 15:19, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> RDF Binary using Apache Thrift
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a binary format for RDF graphs, datasets and SPARQL result
>>>>> sets that is fast to process. [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> http://afs.github.io/rdf-thrift/
>>>>>
>>>>> includes the on-the-wire description as well as an implementation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using Apache Thrift makes it considerably less work to integrate
>>>>> into existing systems and toolkits, or to build custom
>>>>> processing. [2]
>>>>>
>>>>>  Comments and feedback welcome,
>>>>>  Andy
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] The largest gain is on reading data, with rates x3 faster than
>>>>> parsing N-Triples.
>>>>>
>>>>> [2] Apache thrift has a large number of implementations across a
>>>>> range of languages: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/LibraryFeatures
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