Thanks! That looks like it will work for me. On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:49:59 AM UTC-6, Michael Frank wrote: > > i think distributed pub-sub is what you need: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.8/contrib/distributed-pub-sub.html > (somewhat hidden under 'External Contributions'). > > -Michael > > On 12/23/14 08:33, Terry Heinze wrote: > > Hi, > I'm just in the early stages of migrating a simulation that uses the old > Scala Actors to use Akka instead. The application generates a very large > pool of stateful actors that inter-communicate with each other. The > functionality in the cluster sharding example (the one the creates blog > posts) is quite close to what I need. What I haven't discovered yet is an > obvious way to let one actor in the cluster broadcast a message to all of > the other actors in the cluster (or a large subset of the cluster) for > affinity propagation. > > I tried a simplistic approach of just sending to a masked path, but that > only sent the message to the actors that were on the same node and not the > entire cluster. > > context.actorSelection("/user/sharding/MyPool/*") ! Notify(*"Hi, I was > just added"*) > > It seems like I should be sending the message to the shard region > instead, but the examples I'm finding only show using an IdExtractor to > locate a specific actor in the cluster and not to the entire cluster. The > secondary shard region in the blog example stores a subset of the cluster > (the author listings) is basically the tactic I use in the original > simulation (an external mutable map of actor references). > > Is there a recommend way to implement broadcasting? > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >
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