Thanks for the clarification Konrad.
I kind of figured it was a NoOp sink, but wasn't sure if there would be
any side effects due to lack of knowledge.
For now my baby step simply wants to connect. As I move forward the
Sink.ignore will get replaced by a sink that handles the responses.
My problem was resolved in this thread
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/akka-user/p4aWQQEJQts/qNFCDLjoBgAJ>.
-chhil
On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 12:45:22 PM UTC+5:30, Johan Andrén wrote:
>
> Hi Chhil,
>
> If you do not care about any incoming data from the TCP server Sink.ignore
> should be fine (it will accept but discard any data from the server).
>
> --
> Johan
> Akka Team
>
> On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 12:48:52 PM UTC+2, murtuza chhil wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am an Akka newbie trying to get my head around streams.
>>
>> In the following working snippet, if I have a netcat server running I can
>> get the client to send the bytes across.
>>
>> The sink.ignore that I added is simply because I needed a sink to connect
>> to to run the graph. Is that really needed and how would I run something
>> without it because as I see it,
>> I have a source and a the flow created by the Tcp.get(....), that should
>> be sufficient to send the data.
>>
>> Did have a look at the TCpEcho example, but I want to do it without the
>> runfold.
>>
>> ```
>> Flow<ByteString, ByteString, CompletionStage<OutgoingConnection>> flow =
>> Tcp
>> .get(system).outgoingConnection("127.0.0.1", 6000);
>> Source<ByteString, NotUsed> clientSource = Source.single(ByteString
>> .fromString("Chhil"));
>> clientSource.via(flow).to(Sink.ignore()).run(mat);
>> ```
>>
>> -chhil
>>
>
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