Don't create the replacement actor until you've received a Terminated
message for the original actor.
On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 8:58:54 AM UTC-6, Kostas kougios wrote:
>
> I create a named actor, stop it and recreate it with the same name.
> Because stop is async, I end up with exceptions like
>
> akka.actor.InvalidActorNameException: actor name [databaseServer] is not
> unique!
> [info] at
> akka.actor.dungeon.ChildrenContainer$NormalChildrenContainer.reserve(ChildrenContainer.scala:130)
> [info] at
> akka.actor.dungeon.Children$class.reserveChild(Children.scala:77)
> [info] at akka.actor.ActorCell.reserveChild(ActorCell.scala:373)
> [info] at akka.actor.dungeon.Children$class.makeChild(Children.scala:215)
> [info] at
> akka.actor.dungeon.Children$class.attachChild(Children.scala:42)
> [info] at akka.actor.ActorCell.attachChild(ActorCell.scala:373)
> [info] at akka.actor.ActorSystemImpl.actorOf(ActorSystem.scala:586)
> [info] at
> org.distributedrange.actors.StreamActor$$anonfun$2.apply(StreamActor.scala:122)
>
> I get the same exception even if I set an AtomicBoolean to true at:
>
> override def postStop() = {
> stopped.set(true)
> super.postStop()
> }
>
>
> and then
>
> while (!stopped.get) {
> Thread.sleep(1)
> }
>
>
> Is there a way to "block" and wait till the actor stops?
> (don't worry about the block part, it is only for test cases)
>
> Thanks
>
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