akka.persistence

Channel

Related Docs: object Channel | package persistence

final class Channel extends Actor

A channel is used by Processors (and Views) for sending Persistent messages to destinations. The main responsibility of a channel is to prevent redundant delivery of replayed messages to destinations when a processor is recovered.

A channel is instructed to deliver a persistent message to a destination with the Deliver command. A destination is provided as ActorPath and messages are sent via that path's ActorSelection.

class ForwardExample extends Processor {
  val destination = context.actorOf(Props[MyDestination])
  val channel = context.actorOf(Channel.props(), "myChannel")

  def receive = {
    case m @ Persistent(payload, _) =>
      // forward modified message to destination
      channel forward Deliver(m.withPayload(s"fw: ${payload}"), destination.path)
  }
}

To reply to the sender of a persistent message, the sender reference should be used as channel destination.

class ReplyExample extends Processor {
  val channel = context.actorOf(Channel.props(), "myChannel")

  def receive = {
    case m @ Persistent(payload, _) =>
      // reply modified message to sender
      channel ! Deliver(m.withPayload(s"re: ${payload}"), sender.path)
  }
}

Redundant delivery of messages to destinations is only prevented if the receipt of these messages is explicitly confirmed. Therefore, persistent messages that are delivered via a channel are of type ConfirmablePersistent. Their receipt can be confirmed by a destination by calling the confirm() method on these messages.

class MyDestination extends Actor {
  def receive = {
    case cp @ ConfirmablePersistent(payload, sequenceNr, redeliveries) => cp.confirm()
  }
}

If a destination does not confirm the receipt of a ConfirmablePersistent message, it will be redelivered by the channel according to the parameters in ChannelSettings. Redelivered messages have a redeliveries value greater than zero.

If the maximum number of redeliveries is reached for certain messages, they are removed from the channel and a redeliverFailureListener (if specified, see ChannelSettings) is notified about these messages with a RedeliverFailure message. Besides other application-specific tasks, this listener can restart the sending processor to enforce a redelivery of these messages or confirm these messages to prevent further redeliveries.

Annotations
@deprecated
Deprecated

(Since version 2.3.4) Channel will be removed, see akka.persistence.AtLeastOnceDelivery instead.

Source
Channel.scala
See also

Deliver

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  1. type Receive = PartialFunction[Any, Unit]

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  1. final def !=(arg0: Any): Boolean

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  2. final def ##(): Int

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  3. def +(other: String): String

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from Channel to any2stringadd[Channel] performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
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  4. def ->[B](y: B): (Channel, B)

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from Channel to ArrowAssoc[Channel] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
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  5. final def ==(arg0: Any): Boolean

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  6. def aroundPostRestart(reason: Throwable): Unit

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to postRestart.

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to postRestart. Calls postRestart by default.

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  7. def aroundPostStop(): Unit

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to postStop.

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to postStop. Calls postStop by default.

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  8. def aroundPreRestart(reason: Throwable, message: Option[Any]): Unit

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to preRestart.

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to preRestart. Calls preRestart by default.

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  9. def aroundPreStart(): Unit

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to preStart.

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to preStart. Calls preStart by default.

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  10. def aroundReceive(receive: actor.Actor.Receive, msg: Any): Unit

    INTERNAL API.

    INTERNAL API.

    Can be overridden to intercept calls to this actor's current behavior.

    receive

    current behavior.

    msg

    current message.

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  11. final def asInstanceOf[T0]: T0

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  13. implicit val context: ActorContext

    Stores the context for this actor, including self, and sender.

    Stores the context for this actor, including self, and sender. It is implicit to support operations such as forward.

    WARNING: Only valid within the Actor itself, so do not close over it and publish it to other threads!

    akka.actor.ActorContext is the Scala API. getContext returns a akka.actor.UntypedActorContext, which is the Java API of the actor context.

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  14. def ensuring(cond: (Channel) ⇒ Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): Channel

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  15. def ensuring(cond: (Channel) ⇒ Boolean): Channel

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  16. def ensuring(cond: Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): Channel

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  17. def ensuring(cond: Boolean): Channel

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  21. def formatted(fmtstr: String): String

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  22. final def getClass(): Class[_]

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  26. final def notify(): Unit

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  28. def postRestart(reason: Throwable): Unit

    User overridable callback: By default it calls preStart().

    User overridable callback: By default it calls preStart().

    reason

    the Throwable that caused the restart to happen

    Is called right AFTER restart on the newly created Actor to allow reinitialization after an Actor crash.

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    @throws( classOf[Exception] )
  29. def postStop(): Unit

    User overridable callback.

    User overridable callback.

    Is called asynchronously after 'actor.stop()' is invoked. Empty default implementation.

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  30. def preRestart(reason: Throwable, message: Option[Any]): Unit

    User overridable callback: By default it disposes of all children and then calls postStop().

    User overridable callback: By default it disposes of all children and then calls postStop().

    reason

    the Throwable that caused the restart to happen

    message

    optionally the current message the actor processed when failing, if applicable

    Is called on a crashed Actor right BEFORE it is restarted to allow clean up of resources before Actor is terminated.

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  31. def preStart(): Unit

    User overridable callback.

    User overridable callback.

    Is called when an Actor is started. Actors are automatically started asynchronously when created. Empty default implementation.

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  32. def receive: PartialFunction[Any, Unit]

    This defines the initial actor behavior, it must return a partial function with the actor logic.

    This defines the initial actor behavior, it must return a partial function with the actor logic.

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  33. implicit final val self: ActorRef

    The 'self' field holds the ActorRef for this actor.

    The 'self' field holds the ActorRef for this actor.

    Can be used to send messages to itself:

    self ! message
    

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  34. final def sender(): ActorRef

    The reference sender Actor of the last received message.

    The reference sender Actor of the last received message. Is defined if the message was sent from another Actor, else deadLetters in akka.actor.ActorSystem.

    WARNING: Only valid within the Actor itself, so do not close over it and publish it to other threads!

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  35. def supervisorStrategy: SupervisorStrategy

    User overridable definition the strategy to use for supervising child actors.

    User overridable definition the strategy to use for supervising child actors.

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  36. final def synchronized[T0](arg0: ⇒ T0): T0

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  37. def toString(): String

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  38. def unhandled(message: Any): Unit

    User overridable callback.

    User overridable callback.

    Is called when a message isn't handled by the current behavior of the actor by default it fails with either a akka.actor.DeathPactException (in case of an unhandled akka.actor.Terminated message) or publishes an akka.actor.UnhandledMessage to the actor's system's akka.event.EventStream

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  39. final def wait(): Unit

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  41. final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit

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  42. def [B](y: B): (Channel, B)

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Inherited by implicit conversion Ensuring from Channel to Ensuring[Channel]

Inherited by implicit conversion ArrowAssoc from Channel to ArrowAssoc[Channel]

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