Hi Miguel,
the actor you show does not buy you much, since the supervision aspects do
not come into play (i.e. failures will happen in a future, not in the
actor). I would recommend just calling the webservice from the other actor
which needs the reply.
Regards,
Roland
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Miguel Vilá <miguelvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it make sense to wrap an async call to a web service inside an actor?
> Basically, does it make sense to have an actor like the following for each
> web service my system uses? :
>
> class WsActor extends Actor {
>
> def callWebService(params: WsParams): Future[WsResponse] = ???
>
> def receive = {
>
> case params : WsParams => callWebService(params) pipeTo sender
>
> }
>
> }
>
> My general doubt is: there must be situations in which using a plain
> future is enough and others in which an Actor can have some benefits. For
> example the error handling might be better when using a supervisor?
>
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