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Batcher works the exactly way I think it should be with one exception, the msg object is not beeing fully keept.
Seens Batcher is preserving only topic and payload, but I guess it should keep all the msg.
Maybe you could use something like RED.util.cloneMessage(..) : safely clones a message object so it can be reused to pass along each msg as is in the array output.
To keep compatibility, it could be a new option: "Preserve full msg object" (or something like that).

Something I would use if batcher has support to it is a way to clear the batch queue and flush it when needed.
Maybe it could accept msg.reset to clean up without send anything and msg.flush to send all is queued right away.

My use case right now is that I'm setting batcher to 20 slots and 10 seconds, but most of the time I have less then 20 messages and I know wich is the last one, so I could add the flush command to it so we don't need to wait for all the 10 seconds.

Just my 2c - Thank you.