indexing

description: "Anything that can consume a message.";
keywords: "consumer"

class  CONSUMER

feature { COURIER, CONSUMER, PRODUCER }

    consume (message : ANY; message_type : INTEGER) is
                        -- Consume a message of given type.
                        -- Default is 'do nothing'.
        do
        end
-----------------------------------------------------------

    valid_message_type (message : ANY; message_type : INTEGER) : BOOLEAN is
            -- Can this consumer handle a message of the
            -- given type. The default behavior is to
            -- answer `no'.

        do
        end

end -- class CONSUMER

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--  MICO/E --- a free CORBA implementation                            --
--  Copyright (C) 1999 by Robert Switzer                              --
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