Not all communication follows the request-response pattern. In my case there's no need for an application level response, its only purpose is the technical ACK.
Heiko On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Martin Krasser <krass...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Maybe a confirm(reply: Any) method would make sense, where reply is sent > to the sender of the Persistent message. This would also allow for some > internal optimizations. > > > On 04.05.14 10:18, Martin Krasser wrote: > > > On 04.05.14 10:07, Heiko Seeberger wrote: > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Martin Krasser <krass...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Heiko, >> >> >> On 03.05.14 06:58, Heiko Seeberger wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> A short-lived actor A should send a "result" message to some other >> actor B before it terminates itself. As it is important that this message >> gets delivered, I would like to use a channel in order to retry message >> delivery. In case of permanent delivery failure (redeliverMax exceeded) the >> short-lived actor A would send the message to some other actor C which >> would know what to do. This can be implemented using a >> redeliverFailureListener. >> >> My question is: How can the short-lived actor A know that the message >> has been delivered, i.e. the ConfirmablePersistent message has been >> confirmed? AFAIK there's no deliverSuccessListener or such. >> >> >> Actor B should send an application-level reply to actor A. Channels >> preserve sender references. >> > > Well, that's how I have already implemented it without channels. I was > hoping that channels would make that easier ;-) > > > The purpose of a channel is to make delivery of a message from A -> B more > reliable (by implementing a retry-ack protocol where the ack is generated > by the receiver by calling confirm()) and it shouldn't hide an > application-level conversation between actors A and B which also includes > the reply from B to A. You'd also send a reply if A sends a message to B > without using a channel. Hence, when using a channel, B should confirm > delivery *in addition* to sending a reply. > > > Is it possible to add a feature like a deliverSuccessListener in the > future? > > > It's not a big deal to add that but I'm not sure if it's a good idea from > a design perspective. Curious what others think ... > > > Thanks > Heiko > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Martin Krasser > > blog: http://krasserm.blogspot.com > code: http://github.com/krasserm > twitter: http://twitter.com/mrt1nz > > > -- > Martin Krasser > > blog: http://krasserm.blogspot.com > code: http://github.com/krasserm > twitter: http://twitter.com/mrt1nz > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Heiko Seeberger Twitter: @hseeberger Blog: blog.heikoseeberger.name -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
