Hi Alan,
Akka-http works together with akka-stream, so it does work differently than
you tried. Since this is an early technical preview the docs are quite a
bit sketchy, but there are some examples already here:
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-stream-and-http-experimental/0.4/scala/http-core-server.html
-Endre
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, <alan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been experimenting with akka-http in akka 2.3.4 with little luck --
> evidently I am missing something (+ I'm an Akka newbie - which doesn't help
> :( )
>
> I'm coming at this from the Java API (via Groovy -- doubt if that is my
> problem though - Akka has worked marvelously with Groovy so far) and I have
> the following (tucked inside an Actor so an Akka system etc is all set up
> ..)
>
> import akka.http.model.japi.HttpMethods
> import akka.http.model.japi.Http
> import akka.http.model.japi.HttpRequest
> import akka.http.model.japi.Uri
> import akka.pattern.Patterns
> import scala.concurrent.Await
> import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration
> import scala.concurrent.Future
>
> try {
> HttpRequest foo = HttpRequest.create()
>
> foo.withUri(Uri.create("http://spray.io/";))
> foo.withMethod(HttpMethods.GET)
>
> final ActorRef http = Http.get(context.system()).manager()
> Future f = Patterns.ask(http, foo, 15000)
> println "${Await.result(f, Duration.apply(15000L, "millis"))}"
> } catch (Exception e) {
> e.printStackTrace()
> }
>
> All goes swimmingly until the Await.result() which eventually times out:
>
> Error |
> akka.pattern.AskTimeoutException: Ask timed out on
> [Actor[akka://jcore/user/IO-HTTP#396415378]] after [15000 ms]
> Error |
> at
> akka.pattern.PromiseActorRef$$anonfun$1.apply$mcV$sp(AskSupport.scala:333)
> Error |
> at akka.actor.Scheduler$$anon$7.run(Scheduler.scala:117)
> Error |
> at
> scala.concurrent.Future$InternalCallbackExecutor$.scala$concurrent$Future$InternalCallbac
> kExecutor$$unbatchedExecute(Future.scala:694)
> Error | .....
>
> Which I interpret to mean that the Request message got to the HTTP manager
> but no reply was forthcoming. Evidently I am misunderstanding something
> here and I'm hoping someone can set me straight :)
>
> Tnx
> Alan
>
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