Generally there are 2 ways to design for this problem: Once you have an actor reference, you can send things to it. So you can simply do this: targetActorRef ! myThing
When the actor is done with the processing, it will call: myThing.myMethod This design is OK when the target actor is very reliable and it lies in the same node with myThing. Another way, is to use an actor to wrap around myThing. This wrapper actor will communicate with targetActorRef. It may watch targetActorRef to handle the case when targetActorRef dies, targetActorRef doesn't respond after some timeout etc. On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 10:09:19 PM UTC+9, Jabbar Azam wrote: > > I found some nice example showing integration of netty with akka on > github. This is what I'm looking at https://github.com/gibffe/fuse > specifically > https://github.com/gibffe/fuse/blob/master/src/main/java/com/sulaco/fuse/netty/FuseChannelHandler.java > > Its embarrassingly simple :) > > On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:48:47 UTC, Jabbar Azam wrote: >> >> Oops I meant channel handler. >> >> On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:32:21 UTC, Jabbar Azam wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Sorry for the late reply. For some reason the forum messages didn't get >>> forwarded to my email. >>> >>> I was thinking of using typedactors because I am trying to integrate non >>> actor code(cloudhopper SMPP which uses netty) into an actor system. Netty >>> does use callbacks so I can use asynchronous behaviour. >>> >>> Do you think I could encapsulate a netty channel inside an actor? A >>> netty channel can call callbacks whenever something changes in the channel. >>> >>> On Friday, 30 January 2015 12:38:14 UTC, Björn Antonsson wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Are you sure that you need to block the sending code while the actor >>>> does its work? Is there an asynchronous API in netty that you can use >>>> where >>>> the actor would invoke a callback when it has finished processing the >>>> packet? >>>> >>>> B/ >>>> >>>> On 27 January 2015 at 11:03:26, Jabbar Azam (aja...@gmail.com) wrote: >>>> >>>> I think I need to look at typedactors. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 09:29:43 UTC, Jabbar Azam wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> How do I send a message from java non actor based code into an actor >>>>> system? The code will be running on the same node and will be part of the >>>>> same source code. So netty will be running, receiving packets, which will >>>>> send any received packets into an actor system. The actor system will >>>>> process the packets and then send the response payload back to the netty >>>>> code. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> >>>>>>>>>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to akka...@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Björn Antonsson >>>> Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> – Reactive Apps on the JVM >>>> twitter: @bantonsson <http://twitter.com/#!/bantonsson> >>>> >>>> -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
