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+// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
+// Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
+// http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
+//
+// Licensed 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.
+using System;
+using Google.ProtocolBuffers.Descriptors;
+
+namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers {
+  /// <summary>
+  /// Interface for an RPC channel. A channel represents a communication line to
+  /// a service (IService implementation) which can be used to call that service's
+  /// methods. The service may be running on another machine. Normally, you should
+  /// not call an IRpcChannel directly, but instead construct a stub wrapping it.
+  /// Generated service classes contain a CreateStub method for precisely this purpose.
+  /// </summary>
+  public interface IRpcChannel {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Calls the given method of the remote service. This method is similar
+    /// to <see cref="IService.CallMethod" /> with one important difference: the
+    /// caller decides the types of the IMessage objects, not the implementation.
+    /// The request may be of any type as long as <c>request.Descriptor == method.InputType</c>.
+    /// The response passed to the callback will be of the same type as
+    /// <paramref name="responsePrototype"/> (which must be such that
+    /// <c>responsePrototype.Descriptor == method.OutputType</c>).
+    /// </summary>
+    void CallMethod(MethodDescriptor method, IRpcController controller,
+        IMessage request, IMessage responsePrototype, Action<IMessage> done);
+  }
+}