demonstrates issue with thrift service swallowing TTransportException

pingpong.thrift

service PingPong {
    string ping(),
}

simple_thrift_client.py

import logging

import thriftpy
from thriftpy.rpc import make_client

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

pingpong_thrift = thriftpy.load("pingpong.thrift",
                                module_name="pingpong_thrift")

client = make_client(pingpong_thrift.PingPong, '127.0.0.1', 6000)
print(client.ping())

simple_thrift_server.py

import logging

import thriftpy
from thriftpy.rpc import make_server

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

pingpong_thrift = thriftpy.load(
    "pingpong.thrift",
    module_name="pingpong_thrift",
)


class Dispatcher(object):
    def ping(self):
        return 123  # should be string!


server = make_server(
    service=pingpong_thrift.PingPong,
    handler=Dispatcher(),
    host='127.0.0.1',
    port=6001,
)
server.serve()

simple_thrift_server_and_client.py

import logging

import thriftpy
from thriftpy.rpc import make_server
from thriftpy.rpc import make_client

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

pingpong_thrift = thriftpy.load(
    "pingpong.thrift",
    module_name="pingpong_thrift",
)


class Dispatcher(object):
    def ping(self):
        client = make_client(pingpong_thrift.PingPong, '127.0.0.1', 6001)
        return client.ping()


server = make_server(
    service=pingpong_thrift.PingPong,
    handler=Dispatcher(),
    host='127.0.0.1',
    port=6000,
)
server.serve()