I don't see a way to do that with consistent hashing routers. Perhaps you
can use Cluster Sharding
<http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.12/contrib/cluster-sharding.html> instead?

Regards,
Patrik

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Henning Els <[email protected]> wrote:

> I make use of a cluster configuration with consistent hashing routing.
>
> One of my actors represents a physical resource, and messages from the
> resource to the actor are routed using consistent hashing.  Thanks to this
> configuration, the actor is highly available.
>
> The question that now arises is when this actor needs to listen for events
> in the cluster using the DistributedPubSubMediator.  Given that this actor
> might've traveled between nodes (based on cluster changes) I may have one
> of these running on multiple machines.  I'd like only the active actor,
> i.e. the actor to which messages would currently be forwarded to, to react
> to the events.
>
> Is there a way that this actor can check if it is the consistent hash
> target, without sending a message to the router and allowing the router to
> route the message?  I.e. I'm hoping to find a library call that I can pass
> the message to, and have it return the node to which it would be forwarded
> to.
>
> This is currently done in Java, although any advice will be helpful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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