Lets say I create an actor that will serve JSON to an end user but that actor returning the OverviewJson has to get data from three different actors and wait for them all to return a response before proceeding. Now I could create an actor that uses the ask patter to call all three other actors but that seems like it might be a bit heavyweight. I don't like using ask because of the concurrency involved. What I was wondering is if anyone had ideas for doing this without ask. However, at some point i have to return the data synchronously. After all the user is on the endpoint waiting for a response so I cant just message them asynchronously.
One thought i had was to create a short term actor that send the messages to the other actors in the preStart and then waited until it collected all data with all three pieces collected and then returned to the user the created info. This seems to be exactly what the Ask pattern does and so I wonder if I am any better off then I would be just using Ask. Thanks for the feedback. -- >>>>>>>>>> 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 akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
