Ammending Event Bus Api to remove Pointers

event/eventQueue.go

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type simpleQueue struct {
 // the event.Manager.
 type Queue interface {
 	Publish(event Event)
-	Next() *Event
+	Next() Event
 	Shutdown()
 	OutChan() <-chan Event
 	Len() int
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ func (sq *simpleQueue) Len() int {
 }
 
 // Next returns the next available event from the front of the queue
-func (sq *simpleQueue) Next() *Event {
+func (sq *simpleQueue) Next() Event {
 	event := <-sq.eventChannel
-	return &event
+	return event
 }
 
 // Shutdown closes our eventChannel
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ func (iq *queue) OutChan() <-chan Event {
 }
 
 // Out returns the next available event from the front of the queue
-func (iq *queue) Next() *Event {
+func (iq *queue) Next() Event {
 	event := <-iq.infChan.Out()
-	return &event
+	return event
 }
 
 func (iq *queue) Len() int {

event/eventmanager.go

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 )
 
-// Event is a structure which binds a given set of data to an Type
+// Events are the core struct passed around between various subsystems, they consist of a type which can be
+// filtered on, an event ID for tracing and a map of Fields to string values.
 type Event struct {
 	EventType Type
 	EventID   string