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+"""Abstract Protocol class."""
+
+__all__ = ['Protocol', 'DatagramProtocol']
+
+
+class BaseProtocol:
+    """Common base class for protocol interfaces.
+
+    Usually user implements protocols that derived from BaseProtocol
+    like Protocol or ProcessProtocol.
+
+    The only case when BaseProtocol should be implemented directly is
+    write-only transport like write pipe
+    """
+
+    def connection_made(self, transport):
+        """Called when a connection is made.
+
+        The argument is the transport representing the pipe connection.
+        To receive data, wait for data_received() calls.
+        When the connection is closed, connection_lost() is called.
+        """
+
+    def connection_lost(self, exc):
+        """Called when the connection is lost or closed.
+
+        The argument is an exception object or None (the latter
+        meaning a regular EOF is received or the connection was
+        aborted or closed).
+        """
+
+    def pause_writing(self):
+        """Called when the transport's buffer goes over the high-water mark.
+
+        Pause and resume calls are paired -- pause_writing() is called
+        once when the buffer goes strictly over the high-water mark
+        (even if subsequent writes increases the buffer size even
+        more), and eventually resume_writing() is called once when the
+        buffer size reaches the low-water mark.
+
+        Note that if the buffer size equals the high-water mark,
+        pause_writing() is not called -- it must go strictly over.
+        Conversely, resume_writing() is called when the buffer size is
+        equal or lower than the low-water mark.  These end conditions
+        are important to ensure that things go as expected when either
+        mark is zero.
+
+        NOTE: This is the only Protocol callback that is not called
+        through EventLoop.call_soon() -- if it were, it would have no
+        effect when it's most needed (when the app keeps writing
+        without yielding until pause_writing() is called).
+        """
+
+    def resume_writing(self):
+        """Called when the transport's buffer drains below the low-water mark.
+
+        See pause_writing() for details.
+        """
+
+
+class Protocol(BaseProtocol):
+    """Interface for stream protocol.
+
+    The user should implement this interface.  They can inherit from
+    this class but don't need to.  The implementations here do
+    nothing (they don't raise exceptions).
+
+    When the user wants to requests a transport, they pass a protocol
+    factory to a utility function (e.g., EventLoop.create_connection()).
+
+    When the connection is made successfully, connection_made() is
+    called with a suitable transport object.  Then data_received()
+    will be called 0 or more times with data (bytes) received from the
+    transport; finally, connection_lost() will be called exactly once
+    with either an exception object or None as an argument.
+
+    State machine of calls:
+
+      start -> CM [-> DR*] [-> ER?] -> CL -> end
+    """
+
+    def data_received(self, data):
+        """Called when some data is received.
+
+        The argument is a bytes object.
+        """
+
+    def eof_received(self):
+        """Called when the other end calls write_eof() or equivalent.
+
+        If this returns a false value (including None), the transport
+        will close itself.  If it returns a true value, closing the
+        transport is up to the protocol.
+        """
+
+
+class DatagramProtocol(BaseProtocol):
+    """Interface for datagram protocol."""
+
+    def datagram_received(self, data, addr):
+        """Called when some datagram is received."""
+
+    def error_received(self, exc):
+        """Called when a send or receive operation raises an OSError.
+
+        (Other than BlockingIOError or InterruptedError.)
+        """
+
+
+class SubprocessProtocol(BaseProtocol):
+    """Interface for protocol for subprocess calls."""
+
+    def pipe_data_received(self, fd, data):
+        """Called when the subprocess writes data into stdout/stderr pipe.
+
+        fd is int file dascriptor.
+        data is bytes object.
+        """
+
+    def pipe_connection_lost(self, fd, exc):
+        """Called when a file descriptor associated with the child process is
+        closed.
+
+        fd is the int file descriptor that was closed.
+        """
+
+    def process_exited(self):
+        """Called when subprocess has exited."""