What does ActionResultType.CONSUME mean?

[immortalmice]

ActionResultType has four elements, please correct me if i'm wrong.

 

• SUCCESS
  All the things is valid, and this action actually modified something in someway.
   
• FAIL
  Some thing is invalid, so this action failed.
   
• PASS
  This action is not related to me, and I didn't do anything with it.
   
• CONSUME
  ...

I can't understand what does consume mean.
I looked all the place that ActionResultType.CONSUME is used in vanilla Minecraft code, but I still can't sum up what this is.

The only things I found is that it used in logical client side mostly. (Ex. ArmorStand, Bed, Cake...etc)

And it seems doesn't change anything.

Is it mean to consume the item held by player? Or is it  consume the result itself?

[Draco18s]

Success and Consume are basically identical, the only thing that makes a distinction is whether or not the player's arm swings when the action is performed.

Edited May 31, 2020 by Draco18s