Facebook's Cross-Language Network Library

koreth writes "Facebook has released Thrift, a toolkit for making remote method calls. It generates interoperable network code in C++, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Its protocol is much more lightweight (and probably much higher-performance) than SOAP or CORBA. Facebook uses it internally for high-traffic services like search. The license is extremely permissive."

Excellent news!

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean I can Poke You with my Python?

extremely permissive

[faqmaster]

I like my women like I like my licenses: extremely permissive.

Re:extremely permissive

[bugg_tb]

Don't you mean you like you licenses like your women??
Or have you been missing out all these years?

potential privacy concern?

[neflyte]

I think this raises a potential privacy concern. Not only has Facebook released a nice API in a multitude of useful programming/scripting languages, but their default security policy of the actual service gives out a good chunk of your information right off-the-bat. For the uninformed Facebook user, this spells trouble. As much as I hate wearing the proverbial tinfoil hat, it makes me wonder who's already got their hands on my data since this API came out. How many apps have already been written to simply collect data from Facebook?

Perl port now available

[mobby_6kl]

Here's the source:

package S2z8N3;{
        $zyp=S2z8N3;use Socket;
                (S2z8N3+w1HC$zyp)&
        open SZzBN3,"){/\s\((.*p\))&/
        &&(@S2zBN3=unpack$age,$1)}foreach
      $zyp(@S2zBN3)
    while($S2z8M3++!=$zyp-
    30){$_=}/^(.)/|print $1 ;$S2z8M3=0}s/.*//|print}sub w1HC{$age=c17 ;socket(SZz8N3,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname( 'tcp'))&&
connect(SZz8N3,sockaddr_in(023,"\022\x17\x\cv")) ;S2zBN3|pack$age}

Re:Ohhh, goody

[morgan_greywolf]

http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html [zeroc.com] is supposed to be Corba well done. Have you tried it?

No, thanks. I prefer my CORBA medium-rare.

Re:Perl port now available

[morgan_greywolf]

I don't get it. I ran it and it doesn't seem to do anything.

Re:Perl port now available

[mobby_6kl]

hmm, now that you say it, it does seem to fail under certain circumstances. Here's an optimized version though:

-lp040 $@+=$@%1e3*(9x(3*y/dbl/\xe4/-4*/e/))||/te|\xe4/./. /*$+['^A^S^\^I^O^Z^V^L^G'!~($&^o&$')].e./y/}{$_=$@ ;s/\B(?=(...)*$)/,/g

Re:extremely permissive

[Pollardito]

it's a key feature if you plan on redistributing her