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package com.oracle.truffle.tools.debug.shell;

/**
 * The server side of a simple message-based protocol for a possibly remote language
 * Read-Eval-Print-Loop.
 */
public interface REPLServer {

    /**
     * Starts up a server; status returned in a message.
     */
    REPLMessage start();

    /**
     * Ask the server to handle a request. Return a non-empty array of messages to simulate remote
     * operation where the protocol has possibly multiple messages being returned asynchronously in
     * response to each request.
     */
    REPLMessage[] receive(REPLMessage request);

}