Hi Ivan,
Unfortunately I don't know how the Play WS api works, and what should you
expect from it when interfacing with actors. This question seems to be more
suited for the Play mailing list. Of course you might be lucky here if the
community knows the answer, but I unfortunately do not :)
-Endre
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Ivan <ivanschu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm following Play's manual to create websockets, using actors. I got it
> working that the actor "echoes" incoming messages but struggling to find
> how to push arbitrary messages to it. With the synchronous version I can
> store a reference to `out`:
>
> def socket: WebSocket[String, String] =
> WebSocket.acceptWithActor[String, String] { request => out =>
> // can store out to send msgs to it
> TmpActor.props(out)
> }
>
>
> But I can't do this with the asynchronous version:
>
> def socket: WebSocket[String, String] =
> WebSocket.tryAcceptWithActor[String, String] { request =>
> val props = TmpActor.props _
> Future(Right(props))
> }
>
> I tried adding `out` parameter like in the synchronous version but can't
> get it to compile. I'm also not sure if this is the right approach to store
> references to the actors. And I can't find anything to write to the socket
> itself. This is to build functionality similar to a chatroom... I found
> e.g. this project https://github.com/JAVEO/clustered-chat/ but still
> can't find how to send a server-triggered message...
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
>
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