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+(*
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ distributed with this work for additional information
+ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ under the License.
+*)
+
+open Thrift
+
+module T = Transport
+
+class t host port=
+object (self)
+  inherit T.t
+  val mutable chans = None
+  method isOpen = chans != None
+  method opn =
+    try
+      let addr = (let {Unix.h_addr_list=x} = Unix.gethostbyname host in x.(0)) in
+        chans <- Some(Unix.open_connection (Unix.ADDR_INET (addr,port)))
+    with
+        Unix.Unix_error (e,fn,_) -> raise (T.E (T.NOT_OPEN, ("TSocket: Could not connect to "^host^":"^(string_of_int port)^" because: "^fn^":"^(Unix.error_message e))))
+      | _ -> raise (T.E (T.NOT_OPEN, ("TSocket: Could not connect to "^host^":"^(string_of_int port))))
+
+  method close =
+    match chans with
+        None -> ()
+      | Some(inc,out) -> (Unix.shutdown_connection inc;
+                          close_in inc;
+                          chans <- None)
+  method read buf off len = match chans with
+      None -> raise (T.E (T.NOT_OPEN, "TSocket: Socket not open"))
+    | Some(i,o) ->
+        try
+          really_input i buf off len; len
+        with
+            Unix.Unix_error (e,fn,_) -> raise (T.E (T.UNKNOWN, ("TSocket: Could not read "^(string_of_int len)^" from "^host^":"^(string_of_int port)^" because: "^fn^":"^(Unix.error_message e))))
+          | _ -> raise (T.E (T.UNKNOWN, ("TSocket: Could not read "^(string_of_int len)^" from "^host^":"^(string_of_int port))))
+  method write buf off len = match chans with
+      None -> raise (T.E (T.NOT_OPEN, "TSocket: Socket not open"))
+    | Some(i,o) -> output o buf off len
+  method flush = match chans with
+      None -> raise (T.E (T.NOT_OPEN, "TSocket: Socket not open"))
+    | Some(i,o) -> flush o
+end
+
+