Thrift: Is it possible to do only serialization with C++ Thrift library?

Question

With C++ Apache Thrift library, is it possible to use only Serialization/Deserialization and not use RPC services?

As I understand from this page, it is possible to

Answer 1

Here's a different mailing list post with some attached code showing how to use thrift to serialize to a file in C++.

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/thrift-user/201203.mbox/%3C90483D01-ED25-4707-9DB2-5BB3627301FC@manbert.com%3E