[akka-user] "Returning" a value from an ActorPublisher?

2015-10-10 Thread Jan Algermissen
Hi, I am implementing an ActorPublisher that reads records from a database. When the stream is completed I would like to extract some value from the actor (for example the maximum of some field of the records processed). Is there a way to extract such a value from the ActorPublisher once the

Re: [akka-user] "Returning" a value from an ActorPublisher?

2015-10-10 Thread Jan Algermissen
On Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 11:18:20 PM UTC+2, Konrad Malawski wrote: > > > Since an ActorPublisher can get parameters passed in - it's your Props > after all - you could simply pass in a Promise to be completed by it for > example. > > Yeah - thought about that but it somehow felt weird

Re: [akka-user] "Returning" a value from an ActorPublisher?

2015-10-10 Thread Konrad Malawski
Hi there, If the stream completes the actor will be stopped, you can use the usual `postStop` method to "do things in there" i.e. signal this max processed element or something else somewhere. If you can draw up a more specific example we could work on that. Do you want to expose this value as