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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.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _THRIFT_THRIFT_H_
+#define _THRIFT_THRIFT_H_ 1
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_INTTYPES_H
+#include <inttypes.h>
+#endif
+#include <string>
+#include <map>
+#include <list>
+#include <set>
+#include <vector>
+#include <exception>
+
+#include "TLogging.h"
+
+namespace apache { namespace thrift {
+
+class TOutput {
+ public:
+  TOutput() : f_(&errorTimeWrapper) {}
+
+  inline void setOutputFunction(void (*function)(const char *)){
+    f_ = function;
+  }
+
+  inline void operator()(const char *message){
+    f_(message);
+  }
+
+  // It is important to have a const char* overload here instead of
+  // just the string version, otherwise errno could be corrupted
+  // if there is some problem allocating memory when constructing
+  // the string.
+  void perror(const char *message, int errno_copy);
+  inline void perror(const std::string &message, int errno_copy) {
+    perror(message.c_str(), errno_copy);
+  }
+
+  void printf(const char *message, ...);
+
+  inline static void errorTimeWrapper(const char* msg) {
+    time_t now;
+    char dbgtime[25];
+    time(&now);
+    ctime_r(&now, dbgtime);
+    dbgtime[24] = 0;
+    fprintf(stderr, "Thrift: %s %s\n", dbgtime, msg);
+  }
+
+  /** Just like strerror_r but returns a C++ string object. */
+  static std::string strerror_s(int errno_copy);
+
+ private:
+  void (*f_)(const char *);
+};
+
+extern TOutput GlobalOutput;
+
+namespace protocol {
+  class TProtocol;
+}
+
+class TException : public std::exception {
+ public:
+  TException() {}
+
+  TException(const std::string& message) :
+    message_(message) {}
+
+  virtual ~TException() throw() {}
+
+  virtual const char* what() const throw() {
+    if (message_.empty()) {
+      return "Default TException.";
+    } else {
+      return message_.c_str();
+    }
+  }
+
+ protected:
+  std::string message_;
+
+};
+
+class TApplicationException : public TException {
+ public:
+
+  /**
+   * Error codes for the various types of exceptions.
+   */
+  enum TApplicationExceptionType
+  { UNKNOWN = 0
+  , UNKNOWN_METHOD = 1
+  , INVALID_MESSAGE_TYPE = 2
+  , WRONG_METHOD_NAME = 3
+  , BAD_SEQUENCE_ID = 4
+  , MISSING_RESULT = 5
+  };
+
+  TApplicationException() :
+    TException(),
+    type_(UNKNOWN) {}
+
+  TApplicationException(TApplicationExceptionType type) :
+    TException(),
+    type_(type) {}
+
+  TApplicationException(const std::string& message) :
+    TException(message),
+    type_(UNKNOWN) {}
+
+  TApplicationException(TApplicationExceptionType type,
+                        const std::string& message) :
+    TException(message),
+    type_(type) {}
+
+  virtual ~TApplicationException() throw() {}
+
+  /**
+   * Returns an error code that provides information about the type of error
+   * that has occurred.
+   *
+   * @return Error code
+   */
+  TApplicationExceptionType getType() {
+    return type_;
+  }
+
+  virtual const char* what() const throw() {
+    if (message_.empty()) {
+      switch (type_) {
+        case UNKNOWN              : return "TApplicationException: Unknown application exception";
+        case UNKNOWN_METHOD       : return "TApplicationException: Unknown method";
+        case INVALID_MESSAGE_TYPE : return "TApplicationException: Invalid message type";
+        case WRONG_METHOD_NAME    : return "TApplicationException: Wrong method name";
+        case BAD_SEQUENCE_ID      : return "TApplicationException: Bad sequence identifier";
+        case MISSING_RESULT       : return "TApplicationException: Missing result";
+        default                   : return "TApplicationException: (Invalid exception type)";
+      };
+    } else {
+      return message_.c_str();
+    }
+  }
+
+  uint32_t read(protocol::TProtocol* iprot);
+  uint32_t write(protocol::TProtocol* oprot) const;
+
+ protected:
+  /**
+   * Error code
+   */
+  TApplicationExceptionType type_;
+
+};
+
+
+// Forward declare this structure used by TDenseProtocol
+namespace reflection { namespace local {
+struct TypeSpec;
+}}
+
+
+}} // apache::thrift
+
+#endif // #ifndef _THRIFT_THRIFT_H_