On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Harinath Mallepally <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If I got it right, this works perfectly fine as long as the consumer is
> also a actor, how about doing this from outside of akka? I mean the
> invocation of actor.tell happens outside of the akka?
>

That is exactly where "ask()" is helpful.  I generally discourage folks
from using ask directly from inside Actors, but it is critical for calling
them from the outside.


> is it correct to say,If i am sure that my ActorSelection path is correct
> (an actor is created with the given name/path) and then may be I just use
> the ActorSelection itself.
>

It's sometimes an appropriate choice, yes -- I do it in one or two places
myself.  But my understanding is that it's a bit less efficient, the
semantics are *slightly* different (relating to Actors getting restarted),
and as you said yourself, there are things you can do with ActorRef that
you can't do with ActorSelection...

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