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package io.spine.server;

import com.google.protobuf.Any;
import io.spine.core.Version;
import io.spine.server.model.NothingHappened;

/**
 * An object with identity which produces events.
 *
 * @author Alexander Yevsyukov
 */
public interface EventProducer {

    /**
     * The object identity packed into {@link Any}.
     */
    Any getProducerId();

    /**
     * The version of the object to be put into events.
     *
     * <p>If {@linkplain Version#getDefaultInstance() empty}, no version will be added to
     * the generated events.
     */
    Version getVersion();

    /**
     * Obtains the {@link NothingHappened} event message.
     *
     * @return the default instance of {@link NothingHappened}
     */
    default NothingHappened nothing() {
        return NothingHappened.getDefaultInstance();
    }
}

@@ -1655,24 +1655,274 @@
 age.%0A     *%0A
+     * %3Cp%3EThis event should be returned if there is no value for the domain to produce an actual%0A     * event. Note that a %7B@link NothingHappened%7D event is never actually posted into%0A     * the %7B@link io.spine.server.event.EventBus EventBus%7D.%0A     *%0A
      * @retu

Document `EventProducer.nothing()`.