Add RAFT stuff

MyRaft/state.py

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+"""This module contains the base state for all other raft states"""
+
+import MyRaft.node as node
+import MyRaft.raft_pb2 as raft_pb2
+
+class State:
+    """Base class to represent state of the system at any point in time.
+
+    Default behaviour for all messaging methods is to check if term of 
+    message is greater than node's term, and if so convert the current
+    node to a follower.
+    """
+    
+    def __init__(self, context: node.RaftNode):
+        self._context = context
+        self._currentTerm = 0
+
+    def heartbeat_elapsed(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def rcv_RequestVote(self, request):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def rcv_AppendEntries(self, request):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def rcv_vote(self, request):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def rcv_AppendEntriesResponse(self, request):
+        pass
+
+