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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc;

/**
 * All custom RPC protocols to be exported by Coprocessors must extend this interface.
 *
 * <p>
 * <strong>Note that all callable methods must have a return type handled by
 * {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.HbaseObjectWritable#writeObject(java.io.DataOutput, Object, Class, org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration)}.</strong>
 * That is:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>a Java primitive type ({@code int}, {@code float}, etc)</li>
 *   <li>a Java {@code String}</li>
 *   <li>a {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable}</li>
 *   <li>an array or {@code java.util.List} of one of the above</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 */
public interface CoprocessorProtocol extends VersionedProtocol {
  public static final long VERSION = 1L;
}