Thanks for you reply. I will look into the aggregator pattern. On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 1:45:33 AM UTC-4, Adam wrote: > > Hi, > > First of all, actors are very lightweight and you can have many of them, > while an ActorSystem is heavyweight and you should not have many of that > (typically you'd have one). > > As for the pattern you describe - it all depends on the fine details, but > if I had to implement a service that needs to get a set of details and was > permitted (and required) to return partial results depending on some > timeout, I'd have one actor to manage the request, sending the smaller sub > requests and I'd indeed use the scheduler to cut this off if tge timeout > expires. > > It might be useful for you to take a look at the aggregator pattern > referenced from the docs. It has a lot in common with this.
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