Sensors

The term Sensor means to "go out and get information, or a conduit through which information is received".

Sensors in HTM.java are "Network reception or retrieval objects". They come in 4 flavors; only 3 of which are of any concern to a user, the fourth (HTMSensor) is a wrapper around the other three - which is HTM Network aware. These are:

• FileSensor - Attaches to a file source specified by a path, and reads in CSV data, line by line.
• URISensor - Connects to a URL, and reads in CSV data line by line.
• ObservableSensor - Created by passing in a Publisher which can be programmatically fed CSV data, line by line.

Sensors are general data retrieval mechanisms