Hi,
I have a use case where I have to pass message between actors and send a
response back to the caller.
Once I get a request I invoke Actor A, which will do some DB call and
return results. But in certain cases actor A has to invoke actor B and get
some results from Actor B. It then has to
passing around an ActorRef is safe, because an ActorRef is an immutable
structure: http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.4.1/akka/actor/ActorRef.html
there is an alternative however, which i think is less 'leaky'. in the
handling of Request in actor A, you can use ask() and pipeTo():
def receive = {
Thanks Michael. That was very helpful.
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Karthik
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 10:27:45 AM UTC-8, Michael Frank wrote:
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> passing around an ActorRef is safe, because an ActorRef is an immutable
> structure: http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.4.1/akka/actor/ActorRef.html
>
> there is an alternativ
