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# Source code for vmware.vapi.protocol.common.lib

    """
    Common libraries
    """

    __author__ = 'VMware, Inc.'
    __copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2015 VMware, Inc.  All rights reserved.'

    class RequestProcessor(object):
        """
        Implementations of this interface might be attached to client
        :class:`vmware.vapi.core.ApiProvider` implementations as request post-processors
        or to the server :class:`vmware.vapi.core.ApiProvider` implementations as
        pre-processors
        """
        def process(self, message):
            """
            Processes and possibly modifies the provided request byte array

            :type  message: :class:`str`
            :param message: request message. cannot be null. If text is passed as
                            it MUST be UTF-8 encoded.
            :rtype: :class:`str`
            :return: result of the processor. cannot be null. If text is returned it
                     MUST be UTF-8 encoded.
            """
            raise NotImplementedError

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