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function parseThrift(thriftEncodedData, callback) {
  var thrift = require('thrift');
  var transport = new thrift.TBufferedTransport(thriftEncodedData);
  var protocol  = new thrift.TBinaryProtocol(transport);
  var clientClass = require('./gen-nodejs/observation_types').Observation;
  var client = new clientClass();
  client.read(protocol);
  callback(null, client);
}