The thrift protocol currently supported by dubbo is an extension of the thrift native protocol, adding some additional header information on the basis of the native protocol, such as service name, magic number, etc. 2.3.0 and above are supported.
Thrift is an RPC framework donated by Facebook to Apache.
Using the dubbo thrift protocol also needs to use thrift’s idl compiler to compile and generate the corresponding java code, and some enhancements will be made in this regard in subsequent versions.
For SOA standard RPC framework.
Starting from Dubbo 3, the Thrift protocol is no longer embedded in Dubbo, and an independent module needs to be introduced separately.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.dubbo.extensions</groupId>
<artifactId>dubbo-rpc-native-thrift</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId>
<artifactId>libthrift</artifactId>
<version>0.8.0</version>
</dependency>
Incompatible with native Thrift
<dubbo:protocol name="thrift" port="3030" />
[Example code in dubbo project](https://github.com/apache/dubbo/tree/master/dubbo-rpc/dubbo-rpc-thrift/src/test/java/org/apache/dubbo/rpc/protocol /thrift)
Thrift does not support null values, ie: you cannot pass null values in the protocol