Hi Greg,
You're looking for:
import akka.pattern.pipe
class FooActor() extends Actor {
def receive = {
case inMsg:Msg => doSomeWork(inMsg) pipeTo sender() // doSomeWork returns
Future[Seq[String]]
}
}
I.e. you want to send the result of the Future, not the Future itself.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:05 PM, tigerfoot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a remote actor that does work in its receive block that can return
> a future. For example:
>
> class FooActor() extends Actor {
> def receive = {
> case inMsg:Msg => sender ! doSomeWork(inMsg) // doSomeWork returns
> Future[Seq[String]]
> }
> }
>
>
> Would this work remotely? I tried using it like this on the client side:
>
> val myActor = .... // look up a selector
> val fut = ask(myActor, Msg("hi")).mapTo[Seq[String]]
> val res = Await.result(fut, 5.seconds)
>
>
> This returns scala.concurrent.impl.Promise$DefaultPromise, which I have no
> clue what to do with. I've also tried variants with '?' notation for the
> ask.
>
> Is there I way to stay unblocked during this whole thing, or will I have
> to Await on doSomeWork in FooActor then send the results (Seq[String])?
>
> Thanks!
> Greg
>
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