Jonathan, Any luck with your above requirement ? On Monday, November 11, 2013 at 2:32:07 PM UTC-8, Jonathan Uptmore wrote: > > I'm evaluating Akka for a specific use case in which I need to be able to > perform the mailbox features below. > > 1. Query (or get all) messages with a specific sender in a mailbox > 2. Read or inspect the state of messages in a mailbox (which have not been > processed by the consumer actor) > 3. Remove or delete messages from a mailbox so the consumer actor does not > process the messages > > Other desirable but not required features of a mailbox are: > > 4. Order messages to be processed by a common attribute of type long. > This attribute controls the sequence. For example, value of 1 should be > processed before value of 3. I would like this order to apply to all > messages in the consumer's mailbox not just messages from a particular > sender. I understand that this could cause starvation or indefinitely keep > messages at the end of the sequence. This is desired behavior. > 5. Process messages by priority - typical low, medium, high type of > priority > 6. Keep copies of sent messages and mark them as sent - I could possibly > use Akka Persistence (aka eventsourced) and these features would be best > provided through a mailbox API in my case > 7. Read and delete sent messages > > Assumptions: Assume that each mailbox is a single consumer mailbox and not > used with a BalancingDispatcher. No actor can read or change the mailbox of > another actor. An actor may read or change its mailbox while processing a > message in its onReceive method. > > http://letitcrash.com/post/17707262394/why-no-mailboxsize-in-akka-2 provides > some good details that hint at how to implement the features I'm seeking > with Akka Extensions and custom mailbox implementations. Can someone > please elaborate on the implementation details to provide the features I > need? It is not clear how to get the mailbox instance or reference from > the actor or an extension. I plan to use Akka Java 2.3. > > Thanks, > Jonathan > > >
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