How do I implement a C# Thrift service and consume it with a Silverlight client?

Question

I'm current looking at Thrift to use as a RPC framework for our apps (mostly written in C# and Silverlight). I've come as far as implementing a service and consuming it from a C# console app (using a socket as transport).

For the C# server side code my code looked like: (basically copying the tutorials included with the source code)

MyServiceHandler handler = new MyServiceHandler();
MyService.Processor processor = new MyService.Processor(handler);
TServerTransport serverTransport = new TServerSocket(9090);
TServer server = new TSimpleServer(processor, serverTransport);
server.Serve();

For the client side code it looked like:

TTransport transport = new TSocket("localhost", 9090);
TProtocol protocol = new TBinaryProtocol(transport);
MyService.Client client = new MyService.Client(protocol);
transport.Open();
client.SomeServiceCall();

However, we will be consuming the service from a Silverlight client, and unfortunately there is no support for sockets in Silverlight for Thrift. I assume I'm forced to use HTTP communication between the client and service, using Thrift's C# THttpClient and THttpHandler classes? I could not find any examples of how to do this out there, can anyone point me in the right direction? Some example server and client side code would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It seems that this issue was already addressed by this guy. According to this JIRA, the fix is available in Thrift 0.9. You can either try this snapshot (note that, as it's not a final release, it might not be stable) or you can apply this patch to the 0.8 release.