hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/RpcEngine.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.ipc;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;

import javax.net.SocketFactory;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.SecretManager;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier;

/** An RPC implementation. */
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface RpcEngine {

  /** Construct a client-side proxy object. 
   * @param <T>*/
  <T> ProtocolProxy<T> getProxy(Class<T> protocol,
                  long clientVersion, InetSocketAddress addr,
                  UserGroupInformation ticket, Configuration conf,
                  SocketFactory factory, int rpcTimeout) throws IOException;

  /** Stop this proxy. */
  void stopProxy(Object proxy);

  /** Expert: Make multiple, parallel calls to a set of servers. */
  Object[] call(Method method, Object[][] params, InetSocketAddress[] addrs,
                UserGroupInformation ticket, Configuration conf)
    throws IOException, InterruptedException;

  /** Construct a server for a protocol implementation instance. */
  RPC.Server getServer(Class<?> protocol, Object instance, String bindAddress,
                       int port, int numHandlers, int numReaders,
                       int queueSizePerHandler, boolean verbose,
                       Configuration conf, 
                       SecretManager<? extends TokenIdentifier> secretManager
                       ) throws IOException;

}