Re: [akka-user] Akka stream out of band data

2018-02-18 Thread Christopher Hunt
Hey Roland > On 18 Feb 2018, at 22:45, 'Roland Kuhn' via Akka User List > wrote: > > Yes, we considered it with varying depth on multiple occasions and never > found a satisfactory solution. Since graph stages are free to transform not > only individual elements

Re: [akka-user] Akka stream out of band data

2018-02-18 Thread 'Roland Kuhn' via Akka User List
Sent from my iPhone > On 18. Feb 2018, at 11:53, Christopher Hunt wrote: > > > >> On 18 Feb 2018, at 21:10, Viktor Klang wrote: >> >> How do you deal with M:N ports or X:Y element permutations? > > No idea. :-) My main question is, has there

Re: [akka-user] Akka stream out of band data

2018-02-18 Thread Christopher Hunt
> On 18 Feb 2018, at 21:10, Viktor Klang wrote: > > How do you deal with M:N ports or X:Y element permutations? No idea. :-) My main question is, has there been any thinking around associating metadata with elements in the past? Thanks. Cheers C -- >>

Re: [akka-user] Akka stream out of band data

2018-02-18 Thread Viktor Klang
How do you deal with M:N ports or X:Y element permutations? -- Cheers, √ On Feb 18, 2018 01:53, "Christopher Hunt" wrote: > Hi there, > > I’ve been wondering recently if there’s been any thought around carrying > out of band data through an Akka Stream in the spirit of

Re: [akka-user] Akka stream out of band data

2018-02-17 Thread Christopher Hunt
> On 18 Feb 2018, at 11:53, Christopher Hunt wrote: > > By way of solution, perhaps this could be achieved similarly to the > materialiser api calls eg viaMat/viaOob. It just occurred to me that compound types might be the way to solve this eg `new Element with

[akka-user] Akka stream out of band data

2018-02-17 Thread Christopher Hunt
Hi there, I’ve been wondering recently if there’s been any thought around carrying out of band data through an Akka Stream in the spirit of network streams: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band_data One use case is for carrying Open Tracing Spans with elements without polluting stream