async_eb_func v.s. async_tm_func

Question

I am reading some thrift service code and found a lot of names like this:

async_eb_function_name(...) or async_tm_function_name(...)

What are they? It seems to me the prefix: async_eb_ and async_tm_ are both auto added. What are they and what's the difference?

Answer 1

That's from the Python-version of the generator.

EB seems to mean "event based" and "TM" ... well, not 100% sure, but some other code in that same file seems to indicate that "T" might stand for "thread".

References:

• eb vs tm thrift/compiler/py/generate/t_cpp_generator.py line 1081

• def _is_processed_in_eb thrift/compiler/py/generate/t_cpp_generator.py line 5726

• processInThread thrift/compiler/py/generate/t_cpp_generator.py line 1694