neuralnetworks/1.0/IPreparedModel.hal

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package android.hardware.neuralnetworks@1.0;

import IEvent;

/**
 * IPreparedModel describes a model that has been prepared for execution and
 * is used to launch executions.
 */
interface IPreparedModel {
    /**
     * Spawns an asynchronous execution on a prepared model.
     *
     * Executions are asynchronous with respect to the Neuralnetworks runtime.
     * To support this, IPreparedModel::execute must spawn a new task and return
     * whether the task was successfully launched. The asynchronous task which
     * performs the execution must call event's IEvent::notify with the status
     * of the execution immediately after the execution has finished.
     *
     * Multiple threads can call this execute function concurrently.
     *
     * @param request The input and output information on which the prepared
     *                model is to be executed.
     *                prepared model.
     * @param event A callback used for synchronization that must be signaled
     *              once the execution has finished.
     * @return status ErrorStatus::NONE if the asynchronous task was
     *                successfully launched.
     */
    execute(Request request, IEvent event) generates (ErrorStatus status);
};