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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.
+#
+
+$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib'
+require 'thrift'
+$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/gen-rb"
+require 'benchmark_service'
+
+module Server
+  include Thrift
+
+  class BenchmarkHandler
+    # 1-based index into the fibonacci sequence
+    def fibonacci(n)
+      seq = [1, 1]
+      3.upto(n) do
+        seq << seq[-1] + seq[-2]
+      end
+      seq[n-1] # n is 1-based
+    end
+  end
+
+  def self.start_server(host, port, serverClass)
+    handler = BenchmarkHandler.new
+    processor = ThriftBenchmark::BenchmarkService::Processor.new(handler)
+    transport = ServerSocket.new(host, port)
+    transport_factory = FramedTransportFactory.new
+    args = [processor, transport, transport_factory, nil, 20]
+    if serverClass == NonblockingServer
+      logger = Logger.new(STDERR)
+      logger.level = Logger::WARN
+      args << logger
+    end
+    server = serverClass.new(*args)
+    @server_thread = Thread.new do
+      server.serve
+    end
+    @server = server
+  end
+
+  def self.shutdown
+    return if @server.nil?
+    if @server.respond_to? :shutdown
+      @server.shutdown
+    else
+      @server_thread.kill
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+def resolve_const(const)
+  const and const.split('::').inject(Object) { |k,c| k.const_get(c) }
+end
+
+host, port, serverklass = ARGV
+
+Server.start_server(host, port.to_i, resolve_const(serverklass))
+
+# let our host know that the interpreter has started
+# ideally we'd wait until the server was serving, but we don't have a hook for that
+Marshal.dump(:started, STDOUT)
+STDOUT.flush
+
+Marshal.load(STDIN) # wait until we're instructed to shut down
+
+Server.shutdown