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extern crate alloc;
use Arc;
use crate;
use ;
/// A sender-side event producer: the *send* half of causal broadcast, the
/// inverse of the [`Ideal`](crate::metis::Ideal) gate.
///
/// A producer owns one station's send-side causal context and mints
/// [`Event`]s with two operations.
///
/// [`produce`](Self::produce) is the Birman-Schiper-Stephenson send step:
/// count this event in the station's own knowledge, snapshot that knowledge
/// as the event's dependencies, and mint a stamp that already dominates
/// everything observed. [`observe`](Self::observe) is the dual. It folds a
/// received event's dependencies into knowledge and advances the clock by the
/// Hybrid Logical Clock receive rule. This is the only way a producer
/// learns another station's progress. [`try_observe`](Self::try_observe) is
/// its bounded form, refusing wholesale when forward skew exceeds a
/// caller-set bound.
///
/// # Clock ownership
///
/// `C` names how the producer holds its [`Clock`]: any sealed
/// [`ClockCarrier`]. The default owns an erased clock by value. A station has
/// *one* logical clock by invariant. Some stations have stamping sites beyond
/// the producer, such as a seal or a ledger append. Such a station must share
/// that clock with every site. Otherwise it mints colliding stamps under one
/// `station_id`. Such a station passes `Producer<Arc<Clock<TS>>>` or
/// `Producer<&Clock<TS>>` instead. Semantics do not depend on `C`, and the
/// lock-free clock already tolerates concurrent stamping.
///
/// Share the clock across stamping *sites*, never the producer role: one
/// station still runs one producer. Two producers over one clock would each
/// self-count independently and mint colliding dots.
///
/// # Composition
///
/// A producer composes with an [`Ideal`](crate::metis::Ideal) rather than
/// owning one: it *observes* each arrival on receipt, building the knowledge
/// a later `produce` snapshots, while the buffer *delivers* once causal
/// order permits.
///
/// Feeding arrivals is safe in any order. Knowledge folds by join, and the
/// clock only advances. Thus, a later `produce` dominates every observed
/// stamp whatever the order, though exact clock values may vary with it. A
/// node never feeds its own produced events back through its producer, since
/// they were self-counted; a stray self-echo is harmless but ticks the clock.
///
/// # Not generic over the payload
///
/// The producer holds only the clock and knowledge, both payload-agnostic,
/// so the operations carry the payload. This is the one asymmetry with
/// [`Event<T>`](Event) and [`Ideal<T>`](crate::metis::Ideal).
/// `C` is not an exception: it abstracts how the clock is *held*, never what
/// it stamps.
///
/// # Totality
///
/// Every operation is infallible and panic-free, except
/// [`try_observe`](Self::try_observe). Rejection is that method's whole point.
/// [`new`](Self::new) cannot fail because the [`Clock`] already validated its
/// `station_id`.
/// An ownership carrier that gives a producer one validated HLC.
///
/// This trait is sealed: producers accept an owned [`Clock`], `&Clock<TS>`, or
/// `Arc<Clock<TS>>`, but callers cannot substitute a different minting machine under
/// the same contract.