public interface ReplicatedData
ReplicatedData types must be serializable with an Akka
Serializer. It is highly recommended to implement a serializer with
Protobuf or similar. The built in data types are marked with
ReplicatedDataSerialization
and serialized with
ReplicatedDataSerializer
.
Serialization of the data types are used in remote messages and also for creating message digests (SHA-1) to detect changes. Therefore it is important that the serialization produce the same bytes for the same content. For example sets and maps should be sorted deterministically in the serialization.
ReplicatedData types should be immutable, i.e. "modifying" methods should return a new instance.
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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ReplicatedData |
merge(ReplicatedData that)
Monotonic merge function.
|
ReplicatedData merge(ReplicatedData that)
that
- (undocumented)