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// Author: Ge,Jun (jge666@gmail.com)
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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:
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    virtual ~IReader() {}

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    // 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:
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    virtual ~IWriter() {}

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    // 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