Thrurl - Thrift meets cURL

A small utility for accessing Thrift services from the command line, without having to write a service-specific client. Useful for debugging purposes, trying out services, writing integration tests, etc.

Dependencies

You need to have thrift installed. You also need to have the IDL files (.thrift) related to the service you want to call. Thrurl will compile them into Ruby code and parse your parameters to match the expected types automatically.

How to use

Thrurl is a command line client, much like cURL. Using it is simple:

thrurl -h "my-thrift-server" -p 5000 -m "checkinsPerLocation" -s "CheckinService" -a "{ user: { id: 1 } }"

Thrurl will parse the response and display it in JSON format (in case you want to use the output of the script, and because it's a nice human readable format).

Things to improve

• The error messages when e.g. fields are missing or have the wrong type is still very cryptic
• If you use enums, you have to pass in the value of the enum