lib/cpp/src/TProcessor.h

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#ifndef _THRIFT_TPROCESSOR_H_
#define _THRIFT_TPROCESSOR_H_ 1

#include <string>
#include <protocol/TProtocol.h>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>

namespace apache { namespace thrift {

/**
 * A processor is a generic object that acts upon two streams of data, one
 * an input and the other an output. The definition of this object is loose,
 * though the typical case is for some sort of server that either generates
 * responses to an input stream or forwards data from one pipe onto another.
 *
 */
class TProcessor {
 public:
  virtual ~TProcessor() {}

  virtual bool process(boost::shared_ptr<protocol::TProtocol> in,
                       boost::shared_ptr<protocol::TProtocol> out) = 0;

  bool process(boost::shared_ptr<apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol> io) {
    return process(io, io);
  }

 protected:
  TProcessor() {}
};

}} // apache::thrift

#endif // #ifndef _THRIFT_PROCESSOR_H_