thank you Konrad, that was the issue On Sunday, May 25, 2014 1:40:55 AM UTC+2, Konrad Malawski wrote: > > Hello Oskar, > based on the two key datapoints from your email: FSM testing + at > akka.testkit.CallingThreadDispatcher.dispatch( > *CallingThreadDispatcher.scala*:208) > > I deduce that you are using > TestActorRef<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.3.3/?_ga=1.163376252.134227815.1400974226#akka.testkit.TestActorRef> > (well > you’re probably using TestFSMRef as suggested by the FSM > docs<http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/testing.html#testfsmref>, > which also IS-A TestActorRef), which is cool for testing one actor *in > isolation*, yet it won’t work nicely when you test interaction between > actors, because it’s using the *CallingThreadDispatcher*. These > abstractions allow to very easily test “one actor”, yet at the trade of of > effectively being single threaded (sic!), which is why you’re running into > deadlocks. > > So while these patterns and classes are good for *synchronous* testing, > they won’t play well if you have any kind of bigger interaction going on > between actors. Please use the plain TestKit instead, like explained in the > “Asynchronous Integration Testing with > TestKit<http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/testing.html#Asynchronous_Integration_Testing_with_TestKit>" > > section of the docs. > > > I hope this helps, happy hakking! > > > -- > Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski > hAkker @ typesafe > > <http://typesafe.com/go-reactive-activator-contest> >
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