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// Date: Wed Aug  8 05:51:33 PDT 2018

#ifndef BUTIL_READER_WRITER_H

#define BUTIL_READER_WRITER_H

#include <sys/uio.h>                             // iovec

namespace butil {

// Abstraction for reading data.

// The simplest implementation is to embed a file descriptor and read from it.

class IReader {

public:

    virtual ~IReader() {}

    // Semantics of parameters and return value are same as readv(2) except that

    // there's no `fd'.

    virtual ssize_t ReadV(const iovec* iov, int iovcnt) = 0;

};

// Abstraction for writing data.

// The simplest implementation is to embed a file descriptor and writev into it.

class IWriter {

public:

    virtual ~IWriter() {}

    // Semantics of parameters and return value are same as writev(2) except that

    // there's no `fd'.

    // WriteV is required to submit data gathered by multiple appends in one 

    // run and enable the possibility of atomic writes.

    virtual ssize_t WriteV(const iovec* iov, int iovcnt) = 0;

};

}  // namespace butil

#endif  // BUTIL_READER_WRITER_H