akka.contrib.pattern

DistributedPubSubMediator

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class DistributedPubSubMediator extends Actor with ActorLogging

This actor manages a registry of actor references and replicates the entries to peer actors among all cluster nodes or a group of nodes tagged with a specific role.

The DistributedPubSubMediator is supposed to be started on all nodes, or all nodes with specified role, in the cluster. The mediator can be started with the DistributedPubSubExtension or as an ordinary actor.

Changes are only performed in the own part of the registry and those changes are versioned. Deltas are disseminated in a scalable way to other nodes with a gossip protocol. The registry is eventually consistent, i.e. changes are not immediately visible at other nodes, but typically they will be fully replicated to all other nodes after a few seconds.

You can send messages via the mediator on any node to registered actors on any other node. There is three modes of message delivery.

1. DistributedPubSubMediator.Send - The message will be delivered to one recipient with a matching path, if any such exists in the registry. If several entries match the path the message will be sent via the supplied routingLogic (default random) to one destination. The sender of the message can specify that local affinity is preferred, i.e. the message is sent to an actor in the same local actor system as the used mediator actor, if any such exists, otherwise route to any other matching entry. A typical usage of this mode is private chat to one other user in an instant messaging application. It can also be used for distributing tasks to registered workers, like a cluster aware router where the routees dynamically can register themselves.

2. DistributedPubSubMediator.SendToAll - The message will be delivered to all recipients with a matching path. Actors with the same path, without address information, can be registered on different nodes. On each node there can only be one such actor, since the path is unique within one local actor system. Typical usage of this mode is to broadcast messages to all replicas with the same path, e.g. 3 actors on different nodes that all perform the same actions, for redundancy.

3. DistributedPubSubMediator.Publish - Actors may be registered to a named topic instead of path. This enables many subscribers on each node. The message will be delivered to all subscribers of the topic. For efficiency the message is sent over the wire only once per node (that has a matching topic), and then delivered to all subscribers of the local topic representation. This is the true pub/sub mode. A typical usage of this mode is a chat room in an instant messaging application.

4. DistributedPubSubMediator.Publish with sendOneMessageToEachGroup - Actors may be subscribed to a named topic with an optional property group. If subscribing with a group name, each message published to a topic with the sendOneMessageToEachGroup flag is delivered via the supplied routingLogic (default random) to one actor within each subscribing group. If all the subscribed actors have the same group name, then this works just like DistributedPubSubMediator.Send and all messages are delivered to one subscribe. If all the subscribed actors have different group names, then this works like normal DistributedPubSubMediator.Publish and all messages are broadcast to all subscribers.

You register actors to the local mediator with DistributedPubSubMediator.Put or DistributedPubSubMediator.Subscribe. Put is used together with Send and SendToAll message delivery modes. The ActorRef in Put must belong to the same local actor system as the mediator. Subscribe is used together with Publish. Actors are automatically removed from the registry when they are terminated, or you can explicitly remove entries with DistributedPubSubMediator.Remove or DistributedPubSubMediator.Unsubscribe.

Successful Subscribe and Unsubscribe is acknowledged with DistributedPubSubMediator.SubscribeAck and DistributedPubSubMediator.UnsubscribeAck replies.

Source
DistributedPubSubMediator.scala
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  1. new DistributedPubSubMediator(role: Option[String], routingLogic: RoutingLogic, gossipInterval: FiniteDuration, removedTimeToLive: FiniteDuration, maxDeltaElements: Int)

Type Members

  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 DistributedPubSubMediator to any2stringadd[DistributedPubSubMediator] performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
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  4. def ->[B](y: B): (DistributedPubSubMediator, B)

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from DistributedPubSubMediator to ArrowAssoc[DistributedPubSubMediator] 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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  12. def clone(): AnyRef

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  13. val cluster: Cluster

  14. def collectDelta(otherVersions: Map[Address, Long]): Iterable[Bucket]

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

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from DistributedPubSubMediator to Ensuring[DistributedPubSubMediator] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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  17. def ensuring(cond: (DistributedPubSubMediator) ⇒ Boolean): DistributedPubSubMediator

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from DistributedPubSubMediator to Ensuring[DistributedPubSubMediator] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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  18. def ensuring(cond: Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): DistributedPubSubMediator

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from DistributedPubSubMediator to Ensuring[DistributedPubSubMediator] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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  19. def ensuring(cond: Boolean): DistributedPubSubMediator

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    This member is added by an implicit conversion from DistributedPubSubMediator to Ensuring[DistributedPubSubMediator] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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  20. final def eq(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

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  21. def equals(arg0: Any): Boolean

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  22. def finalize(): Unit

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  23. def formatted(fmtstr: String): String

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

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  25. def gossip(): Unit

    Gossip to peer nodes.

  26. val gossipTask: Cancellable

  27. def gossipTo(address: Address): Unit

  28. def hashCode(): Int

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  29. final def isInstanceOf[T0]: Boolean

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  30. def log: LoggingAdapter

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  31. def matchingRole(m: Member): Boolean

  32. def mkKey(path: ActorPath): String

  33. def mkKey(ref: ActorRef): String

  34. def myVersions: Map[Address, Long]

  35. final def ne(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

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  36. val nextVersion: () ⇒ Long

  37. var nodes: Set[Address]

  38. final def notify(): Unit

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  39. final def notifyAll(): Unit

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  40. def otherHasNewerVersions(otherVersions: Map[Address, Long]): Boolean

  41. 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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  42. def postStop(): Unit

    User overridable callback.

    User overridable callback.

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

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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. def prune(): Unit

  46. val pruneInterval: FiniteDuration

  47. val pruneTask: Cancellable

  48. def publish(path: String, msg: Any, allButSelf: Boolean = false): Unit

  49. def publishToEachGroup(path: String, msg: Any): Unit

  50. def put(key: String, valueOption: Option[ActorRef]): Unit

  51. 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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  52. def registerTopic(ref: ActorRef): Unit

  53. var registry: Map[Address, Bucket]

  54. val removedTimeToLiveMillis: Long

  55. def selectRandomNode(addresses: IndexedSeq[Address]): Option[Address]

  56. 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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  57. 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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  58. 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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  59. final def synchronized[T0](arg0: ⇒ T0): T0

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  60. def toString(): String

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  61. 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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  62. final def wait(): Unit

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    @throws( ... )
  63. final def wait(arg0: Long, arg1: Int): Unit

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    @throws( ... )
  64. final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit

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  65. def [B](y: B): (DistributedPubSubMediator, B)

    Implicit information
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from DistributedPubSubMediator to ArrowAssoc[DistributedPubSubMediator] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
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Inherited from ActorLogging

Inherited from Actor

Inherited from AnyRef

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Inherited by implicit conversion any2stringadd from DistributedPubSubMediator to any2stringadd[DistributedPubSubMediator]

Inherited by implicit conversion StringFormat from DistributedPubSubMediator to StringFormat[DistributedPubSubMediator]

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

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

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