I don't think there's much reason to use pipe and ask together. You could
just do this:
otherActor.tell(message, targetActor);
Doesn't allow you to wrap whatever message otherActor will reply with
though.
On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 12:07:37 PM UTC-6, John Ulric wrote:
>
> @Heiko: I heard you loud an clear. Thank you.
>
> I'm still confused, however. So within the onReceive method of an actor, I
> understand it's allowed to call pipe like this, correct?
>
> Patterns.pipe(Patterns.ask(otherActor, message, timeout),
> context().dispatcher());
>
>
> If yes, what's the way if I want to wrap the ask result to add some
> information for subsequent processing that the otherActor cannot do? Would it
> be OK to call something like this?
>
>
> Patterns.pipe(Patterns.ask(otherActor, message, timeout).map(new
> Mapper<Object, Object>() {
> @Override
> public Object apply(Object parameter) {
> return new WrappedMessage(message, otherImmutableParameter);
> }
> }, context().dispatcher()), context().dispatcher());
>
>
> Or does using the future's map method again violate the "don't use future
> callbacks in actors" rule?
>
>
> Sorry if this sounds stupid, but wrapping one's head around the Scala–Java
> gap ain't easy, at least for me.
>
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