1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source3/include/client.h b/source3/include/client.h
index 09fdb81462..c47f058318 100644
--- a/source3/include/client.h
+++ b/source3/include/client.h
@@ -61,6 +61,56 @@ struct cli_pipe_auth_data {
 	} a_u;
 };
 
+/**
+ * rpc_cli_transport defines a transport mechanism to ship rpc requests
+ * asynchronously to a server and receive replies
+ */
+
+struct rpc_cli_transport {
+
+	/**
+	 * Trigger an async read from the server. May return a short read.
+	 */
+	struct async_req *(*read_send)(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+				       struct event_context *ev,
+                                       uint8_t *data, size_t size,
+				       void *priv);
+	/**
+	 * Get the result from the read_send operation.
+	 */
+	NTSTATUS (*read_recv)(struct async_req *req, ssize_t *preceived);
+
+	/**
+	 * Trigger an async write to the server. May return a short write.
+	 */
+	struct async_req *(*write_send)(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+					struct event_context *ev,
+					const uint8_t *data, size_t size,
+					void *priv);
+	/**
+	 * Get the result from the read_send operation.
+	 */
+	NTSTATUS (*write_recv)(struct async_req *req, ssize_t *psent);
+
+	/**
+	 * This is an optimization for the SMB transport. It models the
+	 * TransactNamedPipe API call: Send and receive data in one round
+	 * trip. The transport implementation is free to set this to NULL,
+	 * cli_pipe.c will fall back to the explicit write/read routines.
+	 */
+	struct async_req *(*trans_send)(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+					struct event_context *ev,
+					uint8_t *data, size_t data_len,
+					uint32_t max_rdata_len,
+					void *priv);
+	/**
+	 * Get the result from the read_send operation.
+	 */
+	NTSTATUS (*trans_recv)(struct async_req *req, TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+			       uint8_t **prdata, uint32_t *prdata_len);
+	void *priv;
+};
+
 struct rpc_pipe_client {
 	struct rpc_pipe_client *prev, *next;