Hi Robert,
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Robert Wilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been keeping an eye on the development of akka streams, and I was > just taking a second look at it now. > > There is one thing that I can't seem to get my head around, which is the > explicit types associated with materialization. > > Compared to the earlier beta versions, it feels to me that the adding > explicit materialization types seems to have added quite a lot of > complexity in the APIs for building and using flows and I can't see where > they are particularly beneficial in the general case. > They also removed quite a bit of complexity though: - more complex modules that needed to expose a materialized value needed to also expose the internal Sources/Sinks to the outside world, since those were keys to the MaterializedMap. Removal of this problem alone simplified the TCP interfaces greatly. - Only Sinks and Sources could have a materialized value before. This is no longer the case, and this is used already. - due to the MaterializedMap actually being, well, a Map, you cannot reuse the same Source/Sink twice in the same graph otherwise one would overwrite the others value in a non-deterministic (hash code dependent) manner - due to atomic (non-composite) Sink/Source being the keys to that map, it was not possible to use a transformed version of them and still access the value. The added type-safety is just a nice bonus on top of these. > > Presumably there was a compelling argument for adding them - I just can't > figure out what it is! ;-) > If I need to summarize the above, incomplete list, then the short answer is: composability. The previous map-based model breaked down for anything non-trivial, while the current one, complex or not, actually works ;) -Endre > > Thanks, > Rob > > > > > > > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
