All right then, except I'm under the impression that to use that pattern we
need to create an application using the `spray.routing.HttpService` class,
and I could not find it in akka-http. Is it available under a different
name?
Thanks,
++nic
On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 3:51:27 PM UTC-3, Richard Bradley wrote:
>
> The situation is very much the same in Akka HTTP as it was in Spray 1.3.
> You should be able to translate the actor-per-request pattern into Akka
> with only superficial changes.
> If you didn't deal with large (streamed / chunked) requests, everything is
> very much the same from Routing on down.
>
> As to which is recommended -- I think that is much the same as well:
>
> Actor-per-request needs more book-keeping (to avoid leaks) but allows
> greater control in complex scenarios.
>
> Future calls (which can include "asks" on Actors) are simpler and usually
> more type-safe and easier to work with IMO. You need to be very careful
> around mutable state though.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Rich
>
>
> On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 4:50:54 AM UTC+1, Nicolau Werneck wrote:
>>
>> From what I gathered from the documentation and examples, the usual way
>> to answer to a request asynchronously in Spray and akka-http is to
>> `complete` with a `Future`, which may be produced from asking an actor. But
>> in Spray there was also the so-called "actor per-request" pattern,
>> documented in
>> http://techblog.net-a-porter.com/2013/12/ask-tell-and-per-request-actors/
>>
>> Is that still possible to do with akka-http? And is it discouraged in
>> general? Should we really stick to using Futures to integrate akka-http to
>> the rest of our applications?
>>
>> ++nic
>>
>>
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