On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Richard Rodseth <rrods...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Short version: is it fair to say the traditional warnings against ask() > hold less weight because we have back-pressure? > Well, keep in mind that at least some of the usual warnings against ask() have nothing obviously to do with that sort of thing. The biggest traditional problem with ask() is really a warning about using Future -- it's always dangerous to map/flatMap on a Future inside of an Actor, because the Future will generally execute in parallel rather than properly synchronized in receive; as a result, Future messes up the pseudo-single-threading invariant of Actors. And since a for comprehension of ask() is simply mapping over Futures, it's automatically a bit risky. I don't see how back-pressure helps with that. I haven't thought about how it interacts with streams, but fixing the ask() problem is the whole point of the Requester library <https://github.com/jducoeur/Requester>. You might want to give that a look, and see if it helps with your needs... -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
