package.go

// Copyright (c) 2014 Ashley Jeffs
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// Package input defines consumers for aggregating data from a variety of
// sources. All consumer types must implement interface input.Type.
//
// If the source of a consumer is given assurances of message receipt then the
// consumer must ensure that all messages read from a source are propagated to a
// reader before shutting down gracefully. For example, a ZMQ subscriber model
// based consumer would not need to provide such ensurance, a HTTP POST based
// consumer, however, would be expected to propagate any requests where a 200 OK
// message has been returned.
package input