Hi All, I just took a quick look at the new reactive streams API and in particular the scala DSL at http://doc.akka.io/api/akka-stream-experimental/0.2/index.html#akka.stream.scaladsl.Flow.
Looks pretty good so far. I especially like that this is supposed to evolve into a standard for the entire JVM and not just Scala. One question: Is there a reason that there is no flatMap defined in the DSL? Something like def flatMap[U](f: T => Flow[U]) : Flow[U] I think this would be quite useful for dynamically generating flows based on the values produced by another flow. Example: you have a Flow[URL], and want to dynamically construct a flow to handle reading from the URL based on the content (protocol, etc.) of the URL. Then you want to flatten the whole thing so that you just get a Flow[ByteString]. This might not be the best example, but I hope you get the idea. I don't see any reason why it should be impossible to construct a flatMap with the underlying primitives (Producers). cheers, Rüdiger -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
