Either of the two work. Use ask to integrate with the Actor. The complete has to be in the route - yes. This is a feature we added while we reflected on this while moving Spray to become Akka HTTP. In Spray people would forget to call complete() and it would still compile, now you have to complete in the routes.
-- Konrad `ktoso` Malawski Akka <http://akka.io> @ Lightbend <http://lightbend.com> On 20 December 2016 at 10:36:11, Sid Feiner (sidfei...@gmail.com) wrote: Hey, I've posted this question also on Stack Overflow but I'll post it here as well as I have a bigger chance of getting help :) I am pretty new to the Akka world and I have to migrate a project from Spray to akka-http. In spray, a route was of type Route = RequestContext ⇒ Unit. But in akka-http, it is of type Route = RequestContext ⇒ Future[RouteResult] . So in spray, we would often handle and complete our requests through a chain of Actors (outside of the main controller) using only fire-and-forget so we didn't have to "ask" and the performance was great. Now, we have to use "ask" every time we pass the request to another Actor (correct me if I'm wrong) I've been searching a lot and I found a few options which I'm not sure if they fully satisfy me (the need to complete a request in another Actor without the need to return it back to the controller). So that's where you could help me :) *Option 1: Using onSuccess/onComplete* Does using this block my main controller from receiving more requests? *Option 2: Using Futures and using RouteResult.Complete* I've found the following example at How to complete a request in another actor when using akka-http <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32011503>: import akka.actor.{ActorSystem, Actor, Props}import akka.pattern.askimport akka.stream.ActorMaterializerimport akka.http.scaladsl.Httpimport akka.http.scaladsl.server.Directives._import akka.http.scaladsl.server.{RequestContext, RouteResult}import scala.concurrent.Futureimport akka.http.scaladsl.model.HttpResponseimport akka.util.Timeout class RequestActor extends Actor { //business logic - returns empty HttpResponse def handleRequestMessage(requestContext : RequestContext) = RouteResult.Complete(new HttpResponse()) override def receive = { case reqContext : RequestContext => sender ! handleRequestMessage(reqContext) }}//end class RequestActor object RouteActorTest extends App { implicit val as = ActorSystem("RouteActorTest") implicit val timeout = new Timeout(1000) val actorRef = as actorOf Props[RequestActor] def handleRequest(reqContext : RequestContext) : Future[RouteResult] = ask(actorRef,reqContext).mapTo[RouteResult] val route = path("") { get(handleRequest) } //rest of application... }//end object RouteActorTest But this actually passes the response back every time to the previous Actor (the sender) until it reaches the main controller. Another thing about this option is that in the code, it says: /** * The result of handling a request. * * As a user you typically don't create RouteResult instances directly. * Instead, use the methods on the [[RequestContext]] to achieve the desired effect. */ So I'm not sure if it's a recommended way of doing it. I've tried using requestContext.complete() in another actor but it doesn't work (no error thrown, simply doesn't send response) Does anybody know what the best way is to implement the previous architecture we had - The ability to fire-and-forget the request between Actors and completing it any Actor I want? Thanks a lot! -- >>>>>>>>>> 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. -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
