On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Chris Ridmann <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using akka persistence and am serializing all of my events into JSON
> using the play-json library. For the most part this has been smooth
> sailing, however I can't seem to figure how to do this with ActorRef's - it
> may not be possible with how I'm trying to do it.
>
> Here is what I have thus far:
>
> implicit val actorRefFormat: Format[ActorRef] = new Format[ActorRef] {
> def reads(json: JsValue): JsResult[ActorRef] = {
> JsSuccess(Actor.noSender) // ???
> }
>
> def writes(o: ActorRef): JsValue = {
> val identifier = Serialization.serializedActorPath(o)
> Writes.StringWrites.writes(identifier)
> }
> }
>
>
>
> It seems the `Writes` will work because it doesn't depend on having an
> `ActorSystem` in scope. How would I do this for the `Read`?
>
Yes, you need the actor system for deserialization.
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.10/scala/serialization.html#Serializing_ActorRefs
If that is impossible you must rethink, and use a String and convert it to
an ActorRef at another layer.
/Patrik
>
> Thanks!
> -Chris
>
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