Add support for thrift_file path in 'http' protocol

thriftpy/_compat.py

@@ -25,12 +25,16 @@
 if PY3:
     text_type = str
     string_types = (str,)
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
     def u(s):
         return s
 else:
     text_type = unicode  # noqa
     string_types = (str, unicode)  # noqa
+    from urllib2 import urlopen
+    from urlparse import urlparse
 
     def u(s):
         if not isinstance(s, text_type):

thriftpy/parser/parser.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 from ply import lex, yacc
 from .lexer import *  # noqa
 from .exc import ThriftParserError, ThriftGrammerError
+from thriftpy._compat import urlopen, urlparse
 from ..thrift import gen_init, TType, TPayload, TException
 
 
@@ -484,8 +485,16 @@ def parse(path, module_name=None, include_dirs=None, include_dir=None,
     if not path.endswith('.thrift'):
         raise ThriftParserError('Path should end with .thrift')
 
-    with open(path) as fh:
-        data = fh.read()
+    url_scheme = urlparse(path).scheme
+    if url_scheme == '':
+        with open(path) as fh:
+            data = fh.read()
+    elif url_scheme in ('http', 'https'):
+        data = urlopen(path).read()
+    else:
+        raise ThriftParserError('ThriftPy does not support generating module '
+                                'with path in protocol \'{}\''.format(
+                                    url_scheme))
 
     if module_name is not None and not module_name.endswith('_thrift'):
         raise ThriftParserError('ThriftPy can only generate module with '