Spindle is a Scala code generator for Thrift. The complete documentation lives here.

Because Spindle is a code generator, it needs to plug into your build system.

If you're using sbt 0.12, you can use Spindle's thrift-codegen-plugin. In your project/plugins.sbt, add the following line:

addSbtPlugin("com.foursquare" % "spindle-codegen-plugin" % "1.8.3")

Then, in the build.sbt for the project with the *.thrift files to compile, add the following line:

seq(thriftSettings: _*)

By default, the plugin will compile all *.thrift sources in src/main/thrift, though this is configurable.

Keep in mind that this will add a few library dependencies to your project. Currently, this includes spindle-runtime, apache thrift, joda-time, jackson, rogue-field, finagle-thrift, and scalaj-collection. If you need a specific version of any of these dependencies, the plugin can be configured to use those.

The latest release is 1.8.3. See the changelog for more details.

Major changes in 1.8.x:

• Support for hashed, 2dsphere and text indices
• Map support in TReadableJSONProtocol
• TBSONProtocol improvements
• Unknown field handling for forwards-compatibility
• Codegen newtype implicits
• Groundwork for optional proxy generation
• Hooks for alternateFk

Apache thrift, joda-time, jackson, rogue-field, finagle-thrift, and scalaj-collection.

Spindle was initially developed by Foursquare Labs for internal use. Many people have contributed:

• Adam Powslowsky
• Ben Lee
• Benjy Weinberger
• Daniel Harrison
• Daniel Salinas
• David Blackman
• David Taylor
• Jackson Davis
• Jason Liszka
• Jorge Ortiz
• Matthew Rathbone
• Neil Sanchala
• Tom Dyas

Further contributions welcome!