typedef struct TF_Device TF_Device;

typedef struct TF_VariableInfo TF_VariableInfo;

// Returns a `TF_Device` pointer, which actually points to a C++ `Device`.
// Currently we only allow `NextPluggableDevice` to be casted as `TF_Device`,
// but in theory every this is a C API for every kind of device.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern TF_Device* TF_GetDevice(TF_OpKernelContext* ctx);

  // all tasks in the cluster.
  // This call internally coordinates with other tasks to initialize the eager
  // context and TF server for multi-client execution.
  virtual Status EnableCollectiveOps(const ServerDef& server_def) = 0;

  // Set a distributed manager that helps set up, update, and check liveness
  // of member tasks in the cluster.
  virtual void SetDistributedManager(

  /// The returned entries are paths relative to `path`.
  ///
  /// Plugins must allocate `entries` to hold all names that need to be returned
  /// and return the size of `entries`. Caller takes ownership of `entries`
  /// after the call.
  ///
  /// In case of error, plugins must set `status` to a value different than
  /// `TF_OK`, free memory allocated for `entries` and return -1.
  ///

  /// be accessed while holding the Block's mu lock. The data vector should only
  /// be accessed after state == FINISHED, and it should never be modified.
  ///
  /// In order to prevent deadlocks, never grab the block-cache-wide mu_ lock
  /// AFTER grabbing any block's mu lock. It is safe to grab mu without locking
  /// mu_.
  struct Block {
    /// The block data.

                 TF_Status* out_status) const;

 private:
  // Uses "v2_reader_" to build "var name -> shape" and "var name -> data type"
  // maps; both owned by caller.
  // REQUIRES: "v2_reader_ != nullptr && v2_reader_.status().ok()".
  std::pair<std::unique_ptr<TensorSliceReader::VarToShapeMap>,
            std::unique_ptr<TensorSliceReader::VarToDataTypeMap> >
  BuildV2VarMaps();

  // `SummarizeValue` to resolving this handle and formatting the tensor.
  //
  // For example some tensor handles may represent distributed values, in which
  // 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

  tensorflow::Session* session;
  TF_Graph* const graph;

  tensorflow::mutex mu TF_ACQUIRED_AFTER(TF_Graph::mu);
  int last_num_graph_nodes;

  // If true, TF_SessionRun and similar methods will call
  // ExtendSessionGraphHelper before running the graph (this is the default
  // public behavior). Can be set to false if the caller needs to call
  // ExtendSessionGraphHelper manually.
  std::atomic<bool> extend_before_run;
};