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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# This library is free software, distributed under the terms of
+# the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3, or any later version.
+# See the COPYING file included in this archive
+#
+# The docstrings in this module contain epytext markup; API documentation
+# may be created by processing this file with epydoc: http://epydoc.sf.net
+
+class Contact(object):
+    """ Encapsulation for remote contact
+    
+    This class contains information on a single remote contact, and also
+    provides a direct RPC API to the remote node which it represents
+    """
+    def __init__(self, id, ipAddress, udpPort, networkProtocol, firstComm=0):
+        self.id = id
+        self.address = ipAddress
+        self.port = udpPort
+        self._networkProtocol = networkProtocol
+        self.commTime = firstComm
+        
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, Contact):
+            return self.id == other.id
+        elif isinstance(other, str):
+            return self.id == other
+        else:
+            return False
+    
+    def __ne__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, Contact):
+            return self.id != other.id
+        elif isinstance(other, str):
+            return self.id != other
+        else:
+            return True
+        
+    def __str__(self):
+        return '<%s.%s object; IP address: %s, UDP port: %d>' % (self.__module__, self.__class__.__name__, self.address, self.port)
+    
+    def __getattr__(self, name):
+        """ This override allows the host node to call a method of the remote
+        node (i.e. this contact) as if it was a local function.
+        
+        For instance, if C{remoteNode} is a instance of C{Contact}, the
+        following will result in C{remoteNode}'s C{test()} method to be
+        called with argument C{123}::
+         remoteNode.test(123)
+        
+        Such a RPC method call will return a Deferred, which will callback
+        when the contact responds with the result (or an error occurs).
+        This happens via this contact's C{_networkProtocol} object (i.e. the
+        host Node's C{_protocol} object).
+        """
+        def _sendRPC(*args, **kwargs):
+            return self._networkProtocol.sendRPC(self, name, args, **kwargs)
+        return _sendRPC