VOL-4019: Initial commit with grpc nbi, sbi, etcd, kafka and hw management rpcs.

Change-Id: I78feaf7da284028fc61f42c5e0c5f56e72fe9e78
diff --git a/vendor/gopkg.in/jcmturner/rpc.v1/ndr/strings.go b/vendor/gopkg.in/jcmturner/rpc.v1/ndr/strings.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7a910b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/gopkg.in/jcmturner/rpc.v1/ndr/strings.go
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package ndr
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
+)
+
+const (
+	subStringArrayTag   = `ndr:"varying,X-subStringArray"`
+	subStringArrayValue = "X-subStringArray"
+)
+
+func uint16SliceToString(a []uint16) string {
+	s := make([]rune, len(a), len(a))
+	for i := range s {
+		s[i] = rune(a[i])
+	}
+	if len(s) > 0 {
+		// Remove any null terminator
+		if s[len(s)-1] == rune(0) {
+			s = s[:len(s)-1]
+		}
+	}
+	return string(s)
+}
+
+func (dec *Decoder) readVaryingString(def *[]deferedPtr) (string, error) {
+	a := new([]uint16)
+	v := reflect.ValueOf(a)
+	var t reflect.StructTag
+	err := dec.fillUniDimensionalVaryingArray(v.Elem(), t, def)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	s := uint16SliceToString(*a)
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+func (dec *Decoder) readConformantVaryingString(def *[]deferedPtr) (string, error) {
+	a := new([]uint16)
+	v := reflect.ValueOf(a)
+	var t reflect.StructTag
+	err := dec.fillUniDimensionalConformantVaryingArray(v.Elem(), t, def)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	s := uint16SliceToString(*a)
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+func (dec *Decoder) readStringsArray(v reflect.Value, tag reflect.StructTag, def *[]deferedPtr) error {
+	d, _ := sliceDimensions(v.Type())
+	ndrTag := parseTags(tag)
+	var m []int
+	//var ms int
+	if ndrTag.HasValue(TagConformant) {
+		for i := 0; i < d; i++ {
+			m = append(m, int(dec.precedingMax()))
+		}
+		//common max size
+		_ = dec.precedingMax()
+		//ms = int(n)
+	}
+	tag = reflect.StructTag(subStringArrayTag)
+	err := dec.fillVaryingArray(v, tag, def)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("could not read string array: %v", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}