EventProcessor.java

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package org.zenoss.zep;

import org.zenoss.protobufs.zep.Zep.ZepRawEvent;

/**
 * Service for processing incoming events from the raw event queue, processing
 * them (identifying the event class, transforming them, persisting them), and
 * perform any post-processing on the event including alerting or publishing
 * events.
 */
public interface EventProcessor {
    /**
     * Processes the event.
     * 
     * @param event
     *            The raw event.
     * @throws ZepException
     *             If an error occurs processing the event.
     */
    public void processEvent(ZepRawEvent event) throws ZepException;
}