diff --git a/cdviz-collector/src/sources/mod.rs b/cdviz-collector/src/sources/mod.rs
index 1df4768..cc44c99 100644
--- a/cdviz-collector/src/sources/mod.rs
+++ b/cdviz-collector/src/sources/mod.rs
@@ -65,3 +65,51 @@ pub(crate) fn start(_name: String, config: Config, tx: Sender<Message>) -> JoinH
         Ok(())
     })
 }
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct EventPipeline {
+    metadata: Json::Value,
+    header: HashMap<String, String>,
+    body: Json::Value,
+}
+
+pub struct SourcePipeline {
+    extractor: Extractor,
+    transformers: Vec<TransformerEnum>,
+}
+
+trait Extractor {
+    async fn try_next(&mut self) -> Option<Vec<EventPipeline>>;
+}
+
+impl SourcePipeline {
+    fn new(extractor: Extractor, transformers: Vec<Transformer>) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            extractor,
+            transformers,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Source for SourcePipeline {
+    // TODO optimize avoid using vector and wave (eg replace by stream pipeline, rx for rust ? (stream/visitor flow are harder to test)
+    // TODO avoid crash on Error
+    // Poll from extractor or provide a function "push" to extractor?
+    async fn run(&mut self, tx: Sender<Message>) -> Result<()> {
+        while let Some(event) = self.extractor.try_next().await? {
+            let mut events = vec![event];
+            for transformer in transformers {
+                let mut next_events = vec![];
+                for e in events {
+                    next_events.push_all(transformer.process(event)?);
+                }
+                events = next_events;
+            }
+            for e in events {
+                let cdevent: CDEvent = serde_json::from_slice::<CDEvent>(&e.body)?;
+                // TODO include headers into message
+                tx.send(cdevent.into())?;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/cdviz-collector/src/sources/transformer.rs b/cdviz-collector/src/sources/transformer.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de29004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cdviz-collector/src/sources/transformer.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+use crate::errors::Result;
+use enum_dispatch::enum_dispatch;
+use handlebars::Handlebars;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "format", content = "content")]
+pub(crate) enum TransformerConfig {
+    #[serde(alias = "hbs")]
+    Hbs(String),
+    // #[serde(alias = "vrl")]
+    // Vrl(String),
+}
+
+impl TryFrom<TransformerConfig> for TransformerEnum {
+    type Error = crate::errors::Error;
+
+    fn try_from(value: TransformerConfig) -> Result<Self> {
+        let out = match value {
+            TransformerConfig::Hbs(template) => Hbs::new(&template)?.into(),
+        };
+        Ok(out)
+    }
+}
+
+#[enum_dispatch]
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub(crate) enum TransformerEnum {
+    Hbs,
+}
+
+
+#[enum_dispatch(TransformerEnum)]
+pub(crate) trait Transformer {
+    //TODO return a common Iterator or stream type (better than Vec)
+    // transform the event
+    // return a list of events, empty if event to remove/filter out, severals event for 1-to-many,
+    // single for 1-to-1 (and same as input of no transformation to apply)
+    fn process(&self, e: EventPipeline) -> Result<Vec<EventPipeline>>;
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub(crate) struct Hbs {
+    hbs: Handlebars<'static>,
+}
+
+impl Hbs {
+    pub(crate) fn new(template: &str) -> Result<Self> {
+        let mut hbs = Handlebars::new();
+        hbs.set_dev_mode(false);
+        hbs.set_strict_mode(true);
+        hbs.register_template_string("tpl", template)?;
+        Ok(Self { hbs })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Transformer for Hbs {
+    fn process(&self, e: EventPipeline) -> Result<Vec<EventPipeline>> {
+        let bytes = self.hbs.render("tpl", &e)?.into_bytes();
+        serde_json::from_slice::<Vec<EventPipeline>>(&bytes)?;
+        Ok()
+    }
+}