I have an akka-http api that, upon receiving requests, sends messages to my Cluster via the cluster sharding region. The API layer doesn't know the ActorRefs of the actors in question, just the string identifiers.
region ! AddTarget(sourceId, targetId) So Cluster Sharding works by looking up or creating the appropriate actor identified by "sourceId", passing "targetId" as an additional parameter. Each actor can have many targets - they'll all be talking to each other. >From within the source actor, I'm faced with the choice of storing those targets as List[String] or List[ActorRef]. If I stick with List[String], I can use context.parent to send the message to the targets, through the region. If I use List[ActorRef] instead (presumably by doing a one time Identify exchange so I can get the ActorRef from the response's sender()), I'd be able to skip the region lookup on all ensuing communications. Is one a best practice, or clearly better than the other? Thanks, Curt -- ***************************************************************************************************** ** New discussion forum: https://discuss.akka.io/ replacing akka-user google-group soon. ** This group will soon be put into read-only mode, and replaced by discuss.akka.io ** More details: https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/03/13/discuss.akka.io-announced ***************************************************************************************************** >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 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.
