Hi,
There is nowhere in that shared snippet where you actually use the kill
switch to stop the stream?
A reasonable place to use the kill switch would be the postStop hook of the
actor.
This 3 part series of articles by Colin Breck may help:
http://blog.colinbreck.com/integrating-akka-streams-and-akka-actors-part-i/
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Johan
Akka Team
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Lap Ming Lee <lapming....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot stop an actor running akka stream even with killswitch. How do I
> properly stop an actor running an akka stream?
>
> private def startStream(maybeOffset: Option[ProcessedEventOffset]): Unit = {
> implicit val materializer = ActorMaterializer()
>
> val publisher = SomePublisher
>
> val (killSwitch, done) = Source
> .fromPublisher(publisher)
> .viaMat(KillSwitches.single)(Keep.right)
> .toMat(Sink.ignore)(Keep.both)
> .run()
>
> done.onComplete {
> case Success(_) =>
> context.stop(self)
>
> case Failure(e) => // receive an error from the stream
> log.error(e, "Error while processing stream")
> context.stop(self)
> }
>
> maybeSwitch = Some(killSwitch)
> }
>
>
>
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