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//! Thrift compiler auto-generated support.
//!
//!
//! Types and functions used internally by the Thrift compiler's Rust plugin
//! to implement required functionality. Users should never have to use code
//! in this module directly.

use protocol::{TInputProtocol, TOutputProtocol};

/// Specifies the minimum functionality an auto-generated client should provide
/// to communicate with a Thrift server.
pub trait TThriftClient {
    /// Returns the input protocol used to read serialized Thrift messages
    /// from the Thrift server.
    fn i_prot_mut(&mut self) -> &mut TInputProtocol;
    /// Returns the output protocol used to write serialized Thrift messages
    /// to the Thrift server.
    fn o_prot_mut(&mut self) -> &mut TOutputProtocol;
    /// Returns the sequence number of the last message written to the Thrift
    /// server. Returns `0` if no messages have been written. Sequence
    /// numbers should *never* be negative, and this method returns an `i32`
    /// simply because the Thrift protocol encodes sequence numbers as `i32` on
    /// the wire.
    fn sequence_number(&self) -> i32; // FIXME: consider returning a u32
    /// Increments the sequence number, indicating that a message with that
    /// number has been sent to the Thrift server.
    fn increment_sequence_number(&mut self) -> i32;
}