Attempting to tie together some offline discussion to get to a concrete resolution. The Pub/Sub ack ReplyConsumer [1] uses an enum for reply type. There seems to consensus that explicit .ack() and .nack() methods would be cleaner. Could we make this change before beta or disagree, @pongad @davidtorres @garrettjonesgoogle ?
[1] http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-java/0.11.1/apidocs/com/google/cloud/pubsub/spi/v1/AckReplyConsumer.html