Package plugintrace provides mechanisms to trace events in rpcplugin clients and servers, so that calling applications can record those events in their own application-specific logs or other trace mechanisms.

New launches a plugin server in a child process and returns an object representing that ret.

Serve starts up a plugin server and blocks while serving requests.

ForceServerWithoutTLS is a predefined function for use with ServerConfig.TLSConfig which makes a server not use TLS at all.

NotChildProcessError is the error value returned from Serve if it does not detect the "cookie" environment variable that is a heuristic for detecting whether or not the server is being launched from the expected parent process.

ClientConfig is used to configure the behavior of a plugin client.

HandshakeConfig contains settings that the client and server must both agree on in order for a plugin connection to be established.

Plugin represents a currently-active plugin instance, with an associated child process that is running an RPC server.

ServerConfig is used to configure the behavior of a plugin server started by the Serve function.

ClientVersion is the interface to implement to launch a client for a particular protocol version.

ServerVersion is the interface to implement to write a server for a particular plugin version.

ClientVersionFunc is a function type that implements interface ClientVersion.

ServerVersionFunc is a function type that implements interface ServerVersion.