>From the source: "Only change this if you're very confident and lucky" :-)

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Endre Varga <endre.va...@lightbend.com>
wrote:

> Shouldn't we all postStop there if preStart has been at least invoked
> (i.e. there is already an instance)? It does not seem to be hard, just
> shuffling that code a bit around (famous last words?).
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Patrik Nordwall <
> patrik.nordw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that is how it is implemented. Exception from preStart results in
>> clearing the actor field and throwing ActorInitializationException:
>>
>> https://github.com/akka/akka/blob/master/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorCell.scala#L599
>>
>> Default supervision will result in stop, but postStop is not called
>> because the actor field was cleared:
>> https://github.com/akka/akka/blob/master/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/dungeon/FaultHandling.scala#L210
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Endre Varga <endre.va...@lightbend.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Stanislav Savulchik <
>>> s.savulc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, everyone!
>>>>
>>>> I've discovered that Actor's postStop method doesn't get invoked if
>>>> exception occurs during actor initialization via preStart method. Does
>>>> anyone know if it is the correct behavior? I expected that the failed actor
>>>> could close some resources in postStop.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you have a reproducer for this? I would also expect postStop to be at
>>> least attempted to be called.
>>>
>>>
>>>> P.S. The behavior differs when a failure occurs during regular vs.
>>>> system message processing and supervisor decides to Stop the failed child.
>>>> It seems inconsistent to me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What do you mean here? Can you provide a small example to show this?
>>>
>>>
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