What does your observations show? :)
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Andrew Easter <andrew.eas...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> In my case, I'm not really interested in knowing exactly when the child
> stops. I simply want to know whether context.child would no longer return
> Some(ActorRef) once the child has stopped. Reason being that I'm
> essentially using context.child to lookup children by name, somewhat akin
> to a Map - using context.child seems to avoid explicitly having to create
> my own Map and waiting on Terminated messages to remove children as they
> stop.
>
>
> On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:28:36 UTC+1, Anders Båtstrand wrote:
>>
>> You have to watch the actor to receive the Terminated-message when it
>> stops.
>>
>> context watch childActor
>>
>> As for the question about context.child, I don't know (never used that
>> one myself)....
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anders
>>
>> tirsdag 21. april 2015 09.58.25 UTC+2 skrev Andrew Easter følgende:
>>>
>>> I've struggled to find any explicit documentation to state how a parent
>>> actor reacts to a child actor stopping itself.
>>>
>>> If a child actor calls:
>>>
>>> context stop self
>>>
>>> Will its parent be notified that the child has stopped such that a call
>>> within the parent to:
>>>
>>> context.child("<name_of_stopped_child>")
>>>
>>> will - once the child has completely stopped - eventually return None?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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