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# Consumers
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Consumers provide an abstraction of various `Mainflux consumers`.
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Mainflux consumer is a generic service that can handle received messages - consume them.
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The message is not necessarily a Mainflux message - before consuming, Mainflux message can
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be transformed into any valid format that specific consumer can understand. For example,
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writers are consumers that can take a SenML or JSON message and store it.
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Consumers are optional services and are treated as plugins. In order to
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run consumer services, core services must be up and running.
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For an in-depth explanation of the usage of `consumers`, as well as thorough
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understanding of Mainflux, please check out the [official documentation][doc].
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[doc]: http://mainflux.readthedocs.io
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