On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Roland Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 11 apr 2014 kl. 09:33 skrev Patrik Nordwall <[email protected]>:
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> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Roland Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> It is slightly inconsistent, though: consider
>>
>> /a/*/c
>>
>>
>>    - if a does not exist, we reply
>>    - if it has no children, we don't reply
>>    - if one of its children has no `c` then we reply
>>
>>
>> I think we should send ActorIdentity(None) if a pattern matches nothing.
>>
>
> I agree, but we can maybe do even better. Consider:
>
> /user/a/b/c
> /user/x
> /user/y/b
>
> actorSelection("/user/*/b/c")
> will give 3 replies, 2 of which are ActorIdentity(None)
>
> I think it should never reply with ActorIdentity(None) after a wildcard
> fan-out to more than one branch.
>
>
> That sounds reasonable, and I cannot immediately identify a catch (apart
> from having to re-allocate the "downstream" components of the actor
> selection message in the fan-out case). We'll know for sure once it is
> implemented. Any volunteers?
>

I was thinking of having a private[akka] flag on the Identify message, that
could be set (immutable copy of course) when the wildcard fans out to more
than 1.


>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
> Non-matching wildcard can reply with None, and after wildcard match of one
> child it can also reply with None later.
>
> /Patrik
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Roland
>>
>> 10 apr 2014 kl. 12:24 skrev Heiko Seeberger <[email protected]>:
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>> Makes total sense. Should be documented more explicitly, though.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Heiko
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Patrik Nordwall <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>> This is by design for wildcard selections and I think it would be very
>>> difficult to implement it.
>>> When should it reply with ActorIdentity(None)? The wildcard can
>>> potentially traverse remote nodes.
>>>
>>> /Patrik
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, chris <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:39:45 AM UTC+2, Heiko Seeberger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I can verify this behavior which I consider a bug.
>>>>>  Ticket created: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/tickets/3992
>>>>>
>>>>> Heiko
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>   an interesting question got posted on stackoverflow:
>>>>>>   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22948717/
>>>>>> actorselection-does-not-respond-when-wildcard-is-used
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   When using an actor selection with wildcards (which does not match
>>>>>> an actor) no response
>>>>>>   (ActorIdentity) is sent to the Identify message. Is this normal
>>>>>> behaviour?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>   Christian
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