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[Distributed] More docs on the InvocationDecoder itself
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stdlib/public/Distributed/DistributedActorSystem.swift

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/// /// performs the actual distributed (local) instance method invocation.
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/// mutating func decodeNextArgument<Argument: SerializationRequirement>() throws -> Argument
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/// ```
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///
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/// ### Decoding DistributedActor arguments using Codable
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/// When using the actor system's ``ActorID`` is ``Codable``, every distributed actor using that system
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/// is also implicitly ``Codable`` (see ``DistributedActorSystem``). Such distributed actors are encoded
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/// as their ``ActorID`` stored in a ``Encoder/singleValueContainer``. Since ``Codable`` is being used
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/// by this such system, it means that the ``decodeNextArgument`` method will be using ``Decoder`` to
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/// decode the incoming values, some of which may be distributed actors.
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///
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/// In order for a distributed actor's ``Decodable/init(from:)`` to be able to return an existing instance,
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/// i.e. when the being-decoded ``ActorID`` actually references a locally hosted distributed actor, that the
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/// current actor system can return from `resolve(id:as:)`, an actor system must be provided to the ``Decoder``.
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/// This is done by setting the actor system the decoding is performed for, on the decoder's `userInfo`, as follows:
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///
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/// ```
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/// mutating func decodeNextArgument<Argument: SerializationRequirement>() throws -> Argument {
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/// let argumentData: Data = /// ...
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/// // ...
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/// decoder.userInfo[.actorSystemKey] = self.actorSystem
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/// return try Argument.decode(
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/// }
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// ```
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@available(SwiftStdlib 5.7, *)
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public protocol DistributedTargetInvocationDecoder {
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/// The serialization requirement that the types passed to `decodeNextArgument` are required to conform to.

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