Provides a mix task for compiling Thrift IDL files to Erlang.

Once Thrash is compiled, you can execute mix compile.thrift to generate Erlang code (a required precursor for Thrash) from your Thrift IDL files (i.e., .thrift files). By default, mix compile.thrift assumes that your IDL files are in the thrift directory and that the output should go in the src directory.

The following environment variables modify the behavior of mix compile.thrift.

• THRIFT - Path to the thrift binary (default: thrift).
• THRIFT_INPUT_DIR - Directory containing your .thrift files (default: thrift).
• THRIFT_OUTPUT_DIR - Directory in which generated Erlang source code is placed (default: src).
• FORCE_THRIFT - Set to any of ["TRUE", "true", "1"] to force execution of thrift. By default, the task automatically determines if it is necessary to execute thrift based on the mtimes of the files in the input and output directories.

Prepend :thrift to the list of compilers in your project and this task will run automatically as needed.

defmodule MyProject.Mixfile do
  use Mix.Project

  def project do
    [app: :my_project,
    # usual stuff ..

    # prepend thrift to the usual list of compilers
    compilers: [:thrift] ++ Mix.compilers

    # ...
    ]
  end
end

Run mix deps.compile first to ensure that the compile.thrift task is available.