Hi Christian,
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Christian Kreutzfeldt <mnx...@gmail.com>wrote: > *Hi* > > *I do work on a project where it is required to spawn new actors during > runtime. Their implementation details as well as their configuration may be > unknown during system startup as their code is deployed on-demand.* > What do you mean by deployed on demand? You do dynamic class-loading? > > *As we use custom mailboxes to hook our actors up with the data sources, > the only way to read config options is to fetch them from the provided > ActorSystem.Settings / Config parameters. I know how to extend the* > *configuration prior instantiating a new ActorSystem but what I am looking > for is a dynamic settings/configuration extension during runtime.* > Akka only reads the configuration during ActorSystem startup, it will not pick up any changes until restart. > > *The idea is to extends the configuration providing the actor impl > specific settings, call actorOf(Props.create(...)).withMailbox(...) and > have the actor system provide the updated Settings and Configuration to > our * > *mailbox type.* > You can declare required mailbox types for your actors by extending RequiresMessageQueue[...]: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.2/scala/mailboxes.html#Mailbox_Selection This might achieve what you want. > > *We could use a dedicated ActorSystem per actor/app but that's not the > idea as they all run in a single JVM ... ;-)* > > *To nail down the question: is there a way to extend the settings / > configuration of an already running ActorSystem during runtime?* > No, there is no support for changing the configuration after the system has been started. -Endre > > *Kind regards,* > * Christian* > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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 akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Akka Team Typesafe - The software stack for applications that scale Blog: letitcrash.com Twitter: @akkateam -- >>>>>>>>>> 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 akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
