.. _collector:

Collector
=========

The Collector is a default node implementation from CCA and implements a
:ref:`skeletons`. It has an arbitrary number of input ports and one output port.
the connector tries to merge incoming :ref:`Data Transfer Objects <dto>` (DTO)
of the same type to one multi-dimensional DTO to send over its output port.

A collector has the DTO type given as template argument and
:ref:`Moderate <procstrat>` as its default processing strategy.