On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Patrick Bouffard < bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Also a related question: if the MessageEvent style callback is used, > does (or can) this defer deserialization until getMessage is called, > or skip it altogether (by never calling getMessage)? If not is there a > way to keep a subscriber active, and a callback called when messages > are received, but to not deserialize them? It seems like, e.g., > ShapeShifter from topic_tools might do the trick--however it doesn't > appear to be documented, is the API stable? > > MessageEvent does not, something like ShapeShifter is the way to go at this point. I don't know if ShapeShifter itself is considered public API at this point. Josh