Ah, right, I did not understand it that way. Then we are on perfect
agreement—which is how it should be :-)
Regards, Roland
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> On 13 Nov 2016, at 15:04, Konrad Malawski <konrad.malaw...@lightbend.com>
> wrote:
>
> I think we misunderstood each other somehow.
> I understood your goal is to have "one route" that somehow directly routes
> requests to representative actors (somehow it sounded to me like you have
> deep hierarchies you want to expose like that).
>
> In that sense the "route" would be driven by the structure of your actor tree
> in a 1:1 way.
> This I'm not sure is very good as it binds your API structure directly to the
> actor tree.
>
> If we're talking about something like:
>
> path("users" / name) { name =>
> actors(name) ! something
> }
>
>
> that's totally fine. I'd just be cautious of not adding too much magic and
> creating the route magically from the actor tree structure, as in:
> path(part / part2 / part3) { (p1, p2, p3) =>
> actorSelection(p1 ...) ! ...
> }
>
> This starts to feel like "exposing your tree" (and also could lead to people
> exploiting this by passing weird things in `part`.
>
> --
> Konrad `ktoso` Malawski
> Akka @ Lightbend
>
>> On 12 November 2016 at 12:47:28, Roland Kuhn (goo...@rkuhn.info) wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure I agree with Konrad here: what is wrong with using an HTTP
>> route to expose an actor as service endpoint? This does not imply that the
>> actual implementation needs to be structured accordingly, the backend is
>> completely independent a priori. The role of the composable route snippet is
>> data transport (marshalling, protocol handling) and the actor endpoint
>> orchestrates the collaboration of backend services.
>>
>> Regards, Roland
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 12 Nov 2016, at 12:10, Alvaro Santuy <asan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> :-(
>>>
>>> Ok, so I guesss the "correct" pattern is to always use a "Service Layer"
>>> (non-Akka, so not an actor) between the actors and the REST exposition. Am
>>> I correct?
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 4:28:10 PM UTC+1, Alvaro Santuy wrote:
>>>> Hello everybody.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any project out there capable to easily build REST routes to Akka
>>>> Actors? I would like to map REST resources to Akka Actors and messages
>>>> other than manually encode the routes in Akka HTTP...
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
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