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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.
+
+package com.google.protobuf;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Abstract interface for an RPC channel.  An {@code RpcChannel} represents a
+ * communication line to a {@link Service} which can be used to call that
+ * {@link Service}'s methods.  The {@link Service} may be running on another
+ * machine.  Normally, you should not call an {@code RpcChannel} directly, but
+ * instead construct a stub {@link Service} wrapping it.  Example:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ *   RpcChannel channel = rpcImpl.newChannel("remotehost.example.com:1234");
+ *   RpcController controller = rpcImpl.newController();
+ *   MyService service = MyService.newStub(channel);
+ *   service.myMethod(controller, request, callback);
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @author kenton@google.com Kenton Varda
+ */
+public interface RpcChannel {
+  /**
+   * Call the given method of the remote service.  This method is similar to
+   * {@code Service.callMethod()} with one important difference:  the caller
+   * decides the types of the {@code Message} objects, not the callee.  The
+   * request may be of any type as long as
+   * {@code request.getDescriptor() == method.getInputType()}.
+   * The response passed to the callback will be of the same type as
+   * {@code responsePrototype} (which must have
+   * {@code getDescriptor() == method.getOutputType()}).
+   */
+  void callMethod(Descriptors.MethodDescriptor method,
+                  RpcController controller,
+                  Message request,
+                  Message responsePrototype,
+                  RpcCallback<Message> done);
+}