Create new actor as child of this context with the given name, which must not be null, empty or start with “$”.
Create new actor as child of this context with the given name, which must
not be null, empty or start with “$”. If the given name is already in use,
an InvalidActorNameException
is thrown.
See akka.actor.Props for details on how to obtain a Props
object.
akka.ConfigurationException
if deployment, dispatcher
or mailbox configuration is wrong
akka.actor.InvalidActorNameException
if the given name is
invalid or already in use
Create new actor as child of this context and give it an automatically generated name (currently similar to base64-encoded integer count, reversed and with “$” prepended, may change in the future).
Create new actor as child of this context and give it an automatically generated name (currently similar to base64-encoded integer count, reversed and with “$” prepended, may change in the future).
See akka.actor.Props for details on how to obtain a Props
object.
akka.ConfigurationException
if deployment, dispatcher
or mailbox configuration is wrong
Returns the default MessageDispatcher associated with this ActorRefFactory
Father of all children created by this interface.
Father of all children created by this interface.
INTERNAL API
INTERNAL API
INTERNAL API
INTERNAL API
INTERNAL API
Stop the actor pointed to by the given akka.actor.ActorRef; this is an asynchronous operation, i.e.
Stop the actor pointed to by the given akka.actor.ActorRef; this is
an asynchronous operation, i.e. involves a message send.
If this method is applied to the self
reference from inside an Actor
then that Actor is guaranteed to not process any further messages after
this call; please note that the processing of the current message will
continue, this method does not immediately terminate this actor.
INTERNAL API
INTERNAL API
Construct an akka.actor.ActorSelection from the given path, which is parsed for wildcards (these are replaced by regular expressions internally).
Construct an akka.actor.ActorSelection from the given path, which is parsed for wildcards (these are replaced by regular expressions internally). No attempt is made to verify the existence of any part of the supplied path, it is recommended to send a message and gather the replies in order to resolve the matching set of actors.
Construct an akka.actor.ActorSelection from the given path, which is parsed for wildcards (these are replaced by regular expressions internally).
Construct an akka.actor.ActorSelection from the given path, which is parsed for wildcards (these are replaced by regular expressions internally). No attempt is made to verify the existence of any part of the supplied path, it is recommended to send a message and gather the replies in order to resolve the matching set of actors.
Java API: Look-up an actor by applying the given path elements, starting from the
current context, where ".."
signifies the parent of an actor.
Java API: Look-up an actor by applying the given path elements, starting from the
current context, where ".."
signifies the parent of an actor.
Example:
public class MyActor extends UntypedActor { public void onReceive(Object msg) throws Exception { ... final List<String> path = new ArrayList<String>(); path.add(".."); path.add("myBrother"); path.add("myNephew"); final ActorRef target = getContext().actorFor(path); ... } }
For maximum performance use a collection with efficient head & tail operations.
(Since version 2.2) use actorSelection instead of actorFor
Look-up an actor by applying the given path elements, starting from the
current context, where ".."
signifies the parent of an actor.
Look-up an actor by applying the given path elements, starting from the
current context, where ".."
signifies the parent of an actor.
Example:
class MyActor extends Actor { def receive = { case msg => ... val target = context.actorFor(Seq("..", "myBrother", "myNephew")) ... } }
For maximum performance use a collection with efficient head & tail operations.
(Since version 2.2) use actorSelection instead of actorFor
Look-up an actor by path represented as string.
Look-up an actor by path represented as string.
Absolute URIs like akka://appname/user/actorA
are looked up as described
for look-ups by actorOf(ActorPath)
.
Relative URIs like /service/actorA/childB
are looked up relative to the
root path of the akka.actor.ActorSystem containing this factory and as
described for look-ups by actorOf(Iterable[String])
.
Relative URIs like myChild/grandChild
or ../myBrother
are looked up
relative to the current context as described for look-ups by
actorOf(Iterable[String])
(Since version 2.2) use actorSelection instead of actorFor
Look-up an actor by path; if it does not exist, returns a reference to the dead-letter mailbox of the akka.actor.ActorSystem.
Look-up an actor by path; if it does not exist, returns a reference to
the dead-letter mailbox of the akka.actor.ActorSystem. If the path
point to an actor which is not local, no attempt is made during this
call to verify that the actor it represents does exist or is alive; use
watch(ref)
to be notified of the target’s termination, which is also
signaled if the queried path cannot be resolved.
(Since version 2.2) use actorSelection instead of actorFor
Interface implemented by ActorSystem and ActorContext, the only two places from which you can get fresh actors.