Re: [akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

Hi Alan, I think the sample in the doc section referred to already uses the right factory method and describes why, but please PR the docs with something that makes it more clear if you want! (http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/persistence.html#Failures) -- Johan Akka Team On Wed, Mar

Re: [akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

On 08/03/17 15:07, Akka Team wrote: What it says is, do not use this factory method for persistent actors but instead the Backoff.onStop factory method, not that the back off supervisor cannot be used with persistent actors. Ahah, that makes sense - thanks for the clarification. Perhaps the

Re: [akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

Hi Alan, That is most certainly in the docs and not only a source comment:

Re: [akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

On 08/03/17 14:45, Richard Rodseth wrote: I think they are referring to child actors. i.e. it's OK for actor A to have a backoff supervisor (A can be persistent or not), but if it has a child which is a persistent actor then the caveats apply. Hmm, perhaps - but it doesn't read that way to

Re: [akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

I think they are referring to child actors. i.e. it's OK for actor A to have a backoff supervisor (A can be persistent or not), but if it has a child which is a persistent actor then the caveats apply. On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Alan Burlison wrote: > On 08/03/17

Re: [akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

On 08/03/17 14:03, Alan Burlison wrote: That's not in the docs, it's just a source code comment - I'd have thought it was important enough a restriction to be in the scaladocs? Also, if BackoffSupervisor shouldn't be used with PersistentActors, what is the correct way of dealing with IO

[akka-user] PersistentActor and BackoffSupervisor problen

I have a number of persistent actors that write to disk files that may potentially be NFS files, so IO failure are possible. I was going to wrap the PersistentActors in BackoffSupervisors to deal with any IO errors, but I noticed this in the BackoffSupervisor source: * '''*** * This supervisor