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using System; | |
using Google.ProtocolBuffers.Descriptors; | |
namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers | |
{ | |
/// <summary> | |
/// Interface for an RPC channel. A channel represents a communication line to | |
/// a service (IService implementation) which can be used to call that service's | |
/// methods. The service may be running on another machine. Normally, you should | |
/// not call an IRpcChannel directly, but instead construct a stub wrapping it. | |
/// Generated service classes contain a CreateStub method for precisely this purpose. | |
/// </summary> | |
public interface IRpcChannel | |
{ | |
/// <summary> | |
/// Calls the given method of the remote service. This method is similar | |
/// to <see cref="IService.CallMethod" /> with one important difference: the | |
/// caller decides the types of the IMessage objects, not the implementation. | |
/// The request may be of any type as long as <c>request.Descriptor == method.InputType</c>. | |
/// The response passed to the callback will be of the same type as | |
/// <paramref name="responsePrototype"/> (which must be such that | |
/// <c>responsePrototype.Descriptor == method.OutputType</c>). | |
/// </summary> | |
void CallMethod(MethodDescriptor method, IRpcController controller, | |
IMessage request, IMessage responsePrototype, Action<IMessage> done); | |
} | |
} |