// Create a variable handle with name `variable_name` on a device with name
// `device_name`.
TFE_TensorHandle* CreateVarHandle(TFE_Context* ctx,
                                  const tensorflow::string& device_name,
                                  const tensorflow::string& variable_name);

// Create a variable with value `value` and name `variable_name` on a device
// with name `device_name`.

    TF_CheckpointReader* reader, const char* name);
// Get the variable name at the given index
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern const char* TF_CheckpointReaderGetVariable(
    TF_CheckpointReader* reader, int index);
// Get the number of variable in the checkpoint
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern int TF_CheckpointReaderSize(TF_CheckpointReader* reader);
// Get the DataType of a variable
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern TF_DataType TF_CheckpointReaderGetVariableDataType(

// other languages.
//
// The class currently only interacts with single-slice (i.e., non-partitioned)
// variables.
class CheckpointReader {
 public:
  CheckpointReader(const string& filename, TF_Status* status);

  bool HasTensor(const string& name) const;
  const string DebugString() const;

  // Returns a map from variable names to their shapes.  Slices of a partitioned
  // tensor are combined into a single entry.

typedef struct TF_WhileParams {
  // The number of inputs to the while loop, i.e. the number of loop variables.
  // This is the size of cond_inputs, body_inputs, and body_outputs.
  const int ninputs;

  // The while condition graph. The inputs are the current values of the loop
  // variables. The output should be a scalar boolean.
  TF_Graph* const cond_graph;
  const TF_Output* const cond_inputs;

///   and check the postconditions after the operation returns). If plugins need
///   additional invariants, they should be checked on the plugin side and the
///   `status` out variable should be updated accordingly (e.g., to include
///   plugin version information that relates to the condition change).
///
/// All other changes to the data structures (e.g., method removal, method

  // case placement information is lost when resolving the handle.
  //
  // If false, a caller might implement pretty-printing by resolving and
  // iterating over the resulting tensor. This may still be viable if resolving
  // the handle loses information, but `SummarizeValue` would be more precise.
  virtual bool PreferCustomSummarizer() const { return false; }