Re: [akka-user] Re: TestKit and absolute actor path path

2014-05-23 Thread Martynas Mickevičius
There has been discussion about this a while agohttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/akka-user/viktor$20testactor/akka-user/ETL4XQr1Sj4/N9lo_6gc8voJ . Basically you need to have a way to inject either ActorRef or path for actor selection. Then you can change these in tests accordingly. On

[akka-user] Re: TestKit and absolute actor path path

2014-05-22 Thread Edward Sargisson
I'd love to hear the answer to this too! I've solved the problem by injecting actorRefs but it does seem to lose the point of actor supervision. The other technique I've tried in one spot is to use the TestActorRef to get the underlyingActor and then set the actorRef on that. This means that

Re: [akka-user] Re: TestKit and absolute actor path path

2014-05-22 Thread Edward Sargisson
Well, in my case, I'm creating TestProbes and passing them into the actor under test so that I can verify what it does with them. For example, I have one class which communicates with 3 other actors and I mock out all of them with TestProbes. However, it does feel like a lot of work which is a