I think you are correct to look to pipeTo rather than using onComplete
within your receive handler. You can use map and recoverWith to convert the
future to specific messages of your own design sent to self.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Paul Cleary <pclear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to figure out the best way to handle failures from futures
> within an Actor.
>
> If I have an external resource that can throw an exception / return a
> Failure in a future, I really want the Actor to restart.
>
> Here is a relevant code snippet:
>
> def running: Receive = {
> case "do something" =>
> println("\r\n!!!LOADS STUFF DOING SOMETHING!!!")
> Future {
> Thread.sleep(100); throw new RuntimeException("I CANT DO ANYTHING :(")
> } pipeTo self}
>
>
> ss
>
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