Courier Class

Detailed Description

Courier is the abstract base for all message types exchanged between OctoMY nodes. Each Courier subclass handles a specific type of data (sensors, agent state, blobs). Couriers are registered with a Comms instance and scheduled for transmission based on their mandate (priority, frequency, reliability).

The Courier lifecycle:

• Created by application code with a unique ID and name
• Registered with Comms via registerCourier()
• Scheduled for transmission based on mandate()
• sendingOpportunity() called when it's time to send
• dataReceived() called when matching data arrives

This class is explained in the communication-system explanation.