//
//  IMessageConsumer.cs
//
//  Author:
//       Martin Koppehel <martin.koppehel@st.ovgu.de>
//       Willy Failla <>
//
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Fin Christensen
//
//  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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//  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
//  (at your option) any later version.
//
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//
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//
namespace FreezingArcher.Messaging.Interfaces
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Defines an interface for objects which can consume messages.
    /// </summary>
    public interface IMessageConsumer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Processes the incoming message
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="msg">Message to process</param>
        void ConsumeMessage (IMessage msg);

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the valid messages which can be used in the ConsumeMessage method
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>The valid messages</value>
        int[] ValidMessages { get; }
    }
}
