RFC Generate a prettyprinter for structs about elixir-thrift HOT 1 OPEN

I like this idea and spent a little time looking into a possible implementation. It unfortunately doesn't appear to be an easy thing to build, however. Because structs are just maps, the only want to determine which fields contain enums is based on matching against their names, and hooking into the Inspect protocol at that level appears to involve re-implementing the full struct/map Inspect.inspect/2 code path.

I think that could be done somewhat generically and reused for each of our generated structs, but it's still a good amount of complexity.

I think that work is roughly equivalent to rolling our own pretty printing function, so I'm not sure there's a benefit to not using Inspect here, unless the algebraic nature of Inspect gets in our way.

from elixir-thrift.