That it's a name generated by akka. You did not name your actor, so a default name was generated for it.
Those are generated by using base64 on a sequence number. It's best practice to actually explicitly name your actor btw. On 19 Aug 2016 00:41, "Mark Kaberman" <mkaber...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am creating my Akka actors via Spring integration as described here > <https://github.com/typesafehub/activator-akka-java-spring>. When I look > at my actors paths I always see the $ followed by the letter. For example > If I create an actor and send the message as > > rootActor = system.actorOf(SpringExtProvider.get(system).create(" > rootActor").withRouter(new RoundRobinPool(5)), "root"); > rootActor.tell(new Integer(0), null); > > and then the log the path inside the actor > > public class RootActor extends UntypedActor { > private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger( > RootActor.class); > > @Override > public void onReceive(Object message) throws Exception { > logger.info("{} {} received the message", > this.getClass().getSimpleName(), self().path()); > } > } > > The log entry would be > > RootActor akka://AkkaDemo/user/root/$a received the message > > > I am wondering what $a signify? Another question is should the router be > in the path? > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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. > -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
