As the setup remains stable, I'd go for (1) with an `ActorRef`. Heiko
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Eugene Dzhurinsky <[email protected]>wrote: > I have rather simple setup - a singleton actor, which takes tasks from > outside of the cluster. This actor maintains set of "worker" actors, > deployed to the cluster via the *consistent-hashing-pool* router - so it > doesn't have the references to workers directly. > > Now I need to "register" the worker actors in the singleton in order to > implement the "pooling pattern" - so the workers will query singleton for > more work using "ask". > > Inside a worker actor the call to "context.parent" will return the > reference to the router, and if a message would be sent to this reference - > it will not be dispatched to the "singleton" actor, as far as I learned > from the docs. > > Now I see at least 2 ways of passing a reference to a singleton actor: > > 1) pass the reference to the "singleton" actor as an argument to the > constructor of the "worker" actor. This could be a string with the physical > address of the "singleton" of reference - not sure which would work better? > > 2) in the broadcast message about a new work awailable include the > reference to self (not sure how to do it either) > > What is the preferred way to solve such task of passing a reference to the > "singleton actor"? > > Thanks! > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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. > -- Heiko Seeberger Twitter: @hseeberger Blog: blog.heikoseeberger.name -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
