I am using Cluster Sharding for
this: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.9/contrib/cluster-sharding.html
It provides guaranteed uniqueness of every single actor, handles routing
logic, doing rebalancing if needed and etc.
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 2:40:16 PM UTC+3, Langley wrote:
>
> I quickly scanned the akka docs and saw the following
>
> To look-up a remote actor:
>
> 1. val selection =
> 2. context.actorSelection("akka.tcp://
> [email protected]:2552/user/actorName
>
>
> But my question is, can I look-up the actor if I *don't know the host
> name* that it is running on?
>
> In my system, actors will be created on one of several nodes in the
> cluster and have a cluster wide unique application specific name that can
> in turn be used to create the actor's akka name.
>
> There will be other actors (or controllers from Play) that will also be
> able to calculate the unique name of the actor and want to send a message
> to it, but they won't know which host name in the cluster the actual actor
> is residing on (they appear on arbitrary hosts within the cluster).
>
> It sure seems that I should be able to ask "the cluster" (via my actor's
> context because my node is part of the cluster) what host-name that unique
> actor is running on. If not, then I'd like to create an enhancement request
> ;^)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - J
>
>
>
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