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:caption: Contents:
+Pigeon is a combination of a `STOMP client`_, and a message definition system using `Pydantic`_ models. The message definitions can either be defined manually, or Pigeon can search for message definitions via Python entry-points. A template for message definitions is available `here`_.
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.. autoclass:: pigeon.Pigeon
:members: