vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin/plugin.go

   1 // The plugin package exposes functions and helpers for communicating to
   2 // plugins which are implemented as standalone binary applications.
   3 //
   4 // plugin.Client fully manages the lifecycle of executing the application,
   5 // connecting to it, and returning the RPC client for dispensing plugins.
   6 //
   7 // plugin.Serve fully manages listeners to expose an RPC server from a binary
   8 // that plugin.Client can connect to.
   9 package plugin
  10
  11 import (
  12         "net/rpc"
  13 )
  14
  15 // Plugin is the interface that is implemented to serve/connect to an
  16 // inteface implementation.
  17 type Plugin interface {
  18         // Server should return the RPC server compatible struct to serve
  19         // the methods that the Client calls over net/rpc.
  20         Server(*MuxBroker) (interface{}, error)
  21
  22         // Client returns an interface implementation for the plugin you're
  23         // serving that communicates to the server end of the plugin.
  24         Client(*MuxBroker, *rpc.Client) (interface{}, error)
  25 }