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## Interaction between C++ and Python

Users employ API in Python to describe their own network, however, the network construction actually happens in C++. so Protobuf is introduced to send the message between Python and C++. 

The Interaction between Python and C++ can be simplified as two steps:

1. C++ tells Python how many Ops there are, and what parameter do users need to offer to initialize a new Op. Python then builds API for each Op at compile time.

2. Users invoke APIs built by Python and provide necessary parameters. These parameters will be sent to C++ fo finish Op construction task.

### Message form C++ to Python

We define a Protobuf message class `OpProto` to hold message needed in the first step. What should an `OpProto` contain? This question is equivalent to “What message do we need to offer, to build a Python API which is legal and user oriented and can use to describe a whole Op.”

Following message are necessary:

1. Op's name, and its simple comment.
2. Input and output variable number; each variable's name, type, and comment.
3. Op's attributes; each attribute includes name, type, comment, **default value** and **value range**.

So `OpProto` can be defined as follows:

```proto
enum AttrType {
	INT = 1;
	FLOAT = 2;
	STRING = 3;
	INTS = 4;
	FLOATS = 5;
	STRINGS = 6;
};

message AttrValue {
	AttrType type = 1;
	optional int iv = 2;
	optional float fv = 3;
	optional string sv = 4;
	repeated int ivs = 5;
	repeated float fvs = 6;
	repeated string svs = 7;
};

message AttrProto {
	required string name = 1;
	required string comment = 2;
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	required AttrType type = 3;
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};

message VarProto {
	required string name = 1;
	required string comment = 2;
};

message OpProto {
	repeated VarProto inputs = 1;
	repeated VarProto outputs = 2;
	repeated AttrProto attrs = 3;
	required string type = 4;
	required string comment = 5;
};
```

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To generate Python code automatically:

```python 
def create_python_ops_creatation_functions():
	op_protos = paddle.framework.OpRegistry.get_all_op_proto()
	for type_name in op_protos:
		op_proto = op_protos[type_name]
		def __impl__(**kwargs):  # User must use key word args in Paddle API
			inputs = [kwargs.get(ipt.name, "") for ipt in op_proto.inputs]
			outputs = [kwargs.get(opt.name, "") for opt in op_proto.outputs]
			attrs = [cast_to_op_attr(attr, kwargs.get(attr.name, None)) for attr in op_proto.attrs]
			opdesc = input, outputs, type_name, attrs
			return paddle.framework.OpRegistry.CreateOp(opdesc)
		__impl__.__doc__ = create_doc_string(op_proto)
		globals()[type_name] = __impl__

create_python_ops_creatation_functions()
```
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### Message from Python to C++

To hold message needed in the above second step, we define Protobuf message class `OpDesc`. It is used to hold user-specified parameters in Op describing.

```proto
message OpDesc {
	required string type = 1;	
	repeated string inputs = 2;
	repeated string outputs = 3;
	map<string, AttrValue> attrs = 4;
};
```

## OpProto Register

Every Op has its own `OpProto`. For using convenience, we need to register them and record all their messages. For each `Op` class, we define a corresponding `OpMaker` class, in whose constructor we implement the `OpProto`'s building process. `OpMaker`'s constructor will be invoked by another function `OpRegistry::RegisterOp()`.

```cpp
class OpProtoMaker {
public:
	OpProtoMaker(OpProto* proto): proto_(proto) {}
protected:
	OpProto* proto_;
	void AddInput(const std::string& name, const std::string& desc) {...}
	void AddAttr(const std::string& name, const std::string& desc, TypeId type) {...}
	void AddComment(const std::string& comment) { ... }
};

class OpRegistry {
public:
	using OpCreator = std::function<OperatorBase* (OpDesc& desc)>;
	
	template <typename OpType, typename OpMaker>
	static void RegisterOp(const std::string& name) {
		gCreators_[name] = [](const OpDesc& desc) {
			return new OpType(desc);
		};
		OpProto& opProto = gProtos_[name];
		OpMaker()(&opProto);
	}

	static map<string, OpCreator> gCreators_;
	static map<string, OpProto> gProtos_;
};

template <typename OpType, typename OpMaker>
class OpRegister {
  public:
    OpRegister(std::string type) {
        OpRegistry::RegisterOp<OpType, OpMaker>(type);
    }
};

#define REGISTER_OP(op_class, op_maker_class, type_name)         \
    class op_class##Register {                                   \
      private:                                                   \
        const static OpRegister<#op_class, #op_maker_class> reg; \
    };                                                           \
    const Register op_class##Register::reg(#type_name);
    
class CosineOp {
// ...
}

struct CosineOpProtoMaker : public OpProtoMaker {
	CosineOpProtoMaker(OpProto* proto) : OpProtoMaker(proto) {
		AddInput("input", "input of cosine op");
		AddAttr("scale", "scale of cosine op", float).Default(1.0).LargerThan(0.0);
		AddType("cos");
		AddComment("This is cos op");
	}
}

REGISTER_OP(CosineOp, CosineOpProtoMaker, cos);
```

In `REGISTER_OP(CosineOp, CosineOpProtoMaker, cos)`, we register not only `CosineOp` but also `CosineOpProto`. As fields of `CosineOpProto`, the default value and value range of `scale` are also registered here. 

## Python API

Python  APIs are divided into two types, high-level API and low-level API.

### High-Level API

High-level API is called by users directly, so it should keep its style consistent with existing V2 APIs.

Here is a sample about how a define a fc layer:

```python
hd = fc_layer(input=data, size=56, with_bias=True, activation="sigmoid");
```

`hd` is the output of `fc_layer` and it's a `variable`. It can be further sent into other layers as input.

The definition of `fc_layer()`:

```python
def fc_layer(input, size, with_bias, activation):
	attr_map = {"size":size}
	check_attrs(attr_map)
	w = make_variable('w')
	if with_bias:
		b = make_variable('b')
	else:
		b = None
	fc_output = make_variable('fc_output');
	fc_op(input, w, b, fc_output, attr_map)
	act_output = make_variable('sigmod_output');
	if activation == "sigmod":
		sigmod_op(fc_output, act_output);
	elif:
		# ...
	return act_output;
``` 

### Low Leval API

In above sample, `fc_op` and `sigmod_op` are low-level API. They build `OpDesc` and invoke corresponding C++ code.

*TODO*