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+# Transport for Python Console
+
+## Motivation
+
+The main motivation for the changes originally comes from the new restrictions that *Docker* imposes on its containers' networking. *Docker*
+normally allows IP connections from the host machine (where Docker client is running) to the *Docker* containers. However the reversed
+communication might not be possible. The previous implementation of *Python Console*, which is based on *Apache XML RPC* library, requires
+connections in both directions that caused inability to use *Python Console* in some cases.
+
+## Goal
+
+The goal of the changes is to cover previously unsupported cases for Docker and Docker Compose environments by implementing *unidirectional*
+connection from IDE frontend to *Python Console* backend script.
+
+## Requirements
+
+The *Python Console* logic is complicated. It is better to be preserved.
+
+*Python Console* interaction requires sending requests from IDE to *Python Console* backend script and the opposite way.
+
+## Implementation
+
+### Thrift for Communication Protocol
+
+*Thrift* has such a nice abstraction as *service*. *Service* describe request-response client-server interaction model. *Services* as well
+as *data structures* they use are described using *\*.thrift* files. *Thrift* allows to generate both server-side and client-side interfaces
+and data structures that will be used for the communication.
+
+To meet the *requirements* two *Thrift services* must be present: one for each direction.
+
+### Netty for Transport Layer
+
+*Thrift* transport layer is decoupled from the service model layer. This allows us to use a custom implementation for the transport.
+
+The transport layer should allow us to use *single* TCP connection for two services that operate in different directions. This means that
+each side should act both like a client for one *Thrift service*  (sending requests and processing responses) and a server for the other 
+*Thrift service* (processing requests and sending responses).
+
+To implement this idea let each message be flagged whether the message is a request or a response.
+
+#### Java Implementation
+
+On Java side the message with direction flag is `com.jetbrains.python.console.thrift.DirectedMessage`. The incoming message is parsed into 
+`DirectedMessage` using `com.jetbrains.python.console.thrift.DirectedMessageCodec`. The message content is dispatched then via 
+`com.jetbrains.python.console.thrift.client.DirectedMessageHandler` either to request or response stream and will be handled accordingly by
+*server-side Thrift service* or *client-side Thrift service*.
+
+*Netty* handlers are asynchronous so that requests for *server-side service* and responses for *client-side service* are processed 
+independently.
+
+#### Python Implementation
+
+Similar approach is used on the Python side but it is achieved using low-level `socket` package interaction.
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-Implementation for bidirectional communication using both `Iface` and `Client`/`AsyncClient` on the same transport.
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