Yes, you can use ask with ActorSelection. /Patrik On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Syd Gillani <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah by Future request I mean ask pattern. > > Well the configuration of my actors is as following. > > - Create Actor System > > - Create Master and Send an Object for processing. > > - Create Future and ask the Result form the Master > > > > Master will create various workers and then aggregate the result from them. > > This aggregated result will be send to the Future. > > So I would like to send the response back to Future when the aggregated > result is computed in the Master > > > Syd > > > > > > > > > On Monday, 24 November 2014 11:52:28 UTC+1, Martynas Mickevičius wrote: >> >> By "future request" you mean ask (?) pattern >> <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.7/scala/actors.html#Ask__Send-And-Receive-Future>, >> right? >> >> If so, why do you want to complete the future by other means than >> replying to the original message? >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Syd Gillani <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was going through the Akka actorselection documents and as it >>> describes that you can select and actor and send a reply to it. For instance >>> >>> getContext().system().actorSelection("/actor/a").tell(result, >>> getContext().self()); >>> >>> However, I was wondering if its possible in case of future as well. Does >>> the system provide any name or path id's to the future request as well. >>> Because according to my experiments, the future are assigned as a temporary >>> actors with paths as ''/temp/$a''. But if I use such path from an actor to >>> reply back a future It just simple doesn't work. >>> >>> My project have a master actor and various worker actors and I used >>> future to get the aggregated result form the master. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Syd >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>>>>>>>>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Martynas Mickevičius >> Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> – Reactive >> <http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/> Apps on the JVM >> > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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. > -- Patrik Nordwall Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> - Reactive apps on the JVM Twitter: @patriknw -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
