Hi Ferdinand, Let me try to understand your original problem. You send a request with ask to an Actor with AtLeastOnceDelivery. There you reply to the sender() using the deliver method (and the path of the sender()). Is that what you are doing?
/Patrik On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Ferdinand Hübner < ferdinand.hueb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am experimenting with at-least-once-delivery in akka-persistence. My > goal is to create a future-based service layer on top of an actor system by > using AskSupport. > > The deliver method in AtLeastOnceDelivery expects an ActorPath as its > message destination and delivers the message by using tell on an > ActorSelection created from the ActorPath. > Using tell on an ActorSelection always results in a TimeoutException in my > unit tests if the target of the ActorSelection is a temporary actor created > by AskSupport. > > I created a test-case on github that can be used to reproduce the problem: > https://github.com/ferdinandhuebner/akka-asksupport-actorselection > > Here's a direkt link to the test-suite: > > https://github.com/ferdinandhuebner/akka-asksupport-actorselection/blob/master/src/test/scala/ActorSelectionVsAskSupportSuite.scala > > I tested with Java 1.8, 1.7 and akka 2.3.8, 2.3.7, 2.3.4 and 2.3.2, the > result is always the same. > > Is this an expected behaviour of ActorSelection and temporary actors > created through AskSupport? > > What I can tell from debugging the code: ActorSelection#deliverSelection > doesn't seem to be able to resolve the temporary actor. > After a few recursions it ends in a case that is commented with "foreign > ref" and calls tell on an ActorRef [akka://test/temp] instead of > [akka://test/temp/$a] > > I added another test-case with a proxy intermediary that receives the > message from the AskSupport actor and sends it to the desired target. That > code works fine. However, I want to avoid creating proxy actors. > I don't think that I'm accidentally blocking somewhere in my test-code, > since the test with the proxy actor runs fine. > > If anybody can share any hints or feedback, I would appreciate it. > > Thank you, > Ferdinand > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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. > -- Patrik Nordwall Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> - Reactive apps on the JVM Twitter: @patriknw -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
