Initial: Offchain Workers (#1942)

* Refactor state-machine stuff.

* Fix tests.

* WiP

* WiP2

* Service support for offchain workers.

* Service support for offchain workers.

* Testing offchain worker.

* Initial version working.

* Pass side effects in call.

* Pass OffchainExt in context.

* Submit extrinsics to the pool.

* Support inherents.

* Insert to inherents pool.

* Inserting to the pool asynchronously.

* Add test to offchain worker.

* Implement convenience syntax for modules.

* Dispatching offchain worker through executive.

* Fix offchain test.

* Remove offchain worker from timestamp.

* Update Cargo.lock.

* Address review comments.

* Use latest patch version for futures.

* Add CLI parameter for offchain worker.

* Fix compilation.

* Fix test.

* Fix extrinsics format for tests.

* Fix RPC test.

* Bump spec version.

* Fix executive.

* Fix support macro.

* Address grumbles.

* Bump runtime

substrate/core/offchain/primitives/src/lib.rs

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+// Copyright 2018 Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
+// This file is part of Substrate.
+
+// Substrate is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+
+// Substrate is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with Substrate.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+//! The Offchain Worker runtime api primitives.
+
+#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]
+#![warn(missing_docs)]
+
+use client::decl_runtime_apis;
+use runtime_primitives::traits::NumberFor;
+
+decl_runtime_apis! {
+	/// The offchain worker api.
+	pub trait OffchainWorkerApi {
+		/// Starts the off-chain task for given block number.
+		fn offchain_worker(number: NumberFor<Block>);
+	}
+}