public:
  AbstractContextKind getKind() const { return kind_; }

  // Release any underlying resources, including the interface object.
  //
  // WARNING: The destructor of this class is marked as protected to disallow
  // clients from directly destroying this object since it may manage its own
  // lifetime through ref counting. Thus clients MUST call Release() in order to
  // destroy an instance of this class.

      TF_Status* status) const;

  void AsyncWait(TFE_Context* context, TF_Status* status) const;

  // Device strings for component devices that only include a
  // worker/task/replica if any of those differ across components. Useful for
  // printing debug messages.
  std::vector<std::string> SummarizeDeviceNames() const;

 private:

//  arguments are as follows:
//
//    ncontrol_outputs: Number of control outputs of the function.
//    control_outputs: vector of TF_Operation objects to be marked as control
//      outputs of the function. Operations marked as control outputs are
//      guaranteed to execute.
//    control_output_names: Optional. If not nullptr, vector of strings, one

 public:
  AbstractOperationKind getKind() const { return kind_; }

  // Release any underlying resources, including the interface object.
  //
  // WARNING: The destructor of this class is marked as protected to disallow
  // clients from directly destroying this object since it may manage it's own
  // lifetime through ref counting. Thus this must be allocated on the heap and

/// properly handle the cases when an operation is not supported (i.e., return
/// the corresponding `Status` value).
///
/// REQUIRED OPERATIONS: All required operations are marked as such, including
/// operations which are conditionally required. If the presence of an operation
/// `foo` requires operation `bar` to be present, this is specified in `foo`. If