Source.actorRefWithBackpressure

Materialize an ActorRef of the classic actors API; sending messages to it will emit them on the stream. The source acknowledges reception after emitting a message, to provide back pressure from the source.

Actor interop operators

Signature

Source.actorRefWithBackpressureSource.actorRefWithBackpressure

Description

Materialize an ActorRef, sending messages to it will emit them on the stream. The actor responds with the provided ack message once the element could be emitted allowing for backpressure from the source. Sending another message before the previous one has been acknowledged will fail the stream.

See also:

• Source.actorRef This operator without backpressure control
• ActorSource.actorRef The operator for the new actors API without backpressure control
• ActorSource.actorRefWithBackpressure The corresponding operator for the new actors API
• Source.queue Materialize a SourceQueue onto which elements can be pushed for emitting from the source

Examples

Scala

copysource
import akka.actor.Status.Success
import akka.actor.ActorRef
import akka.stream.CompletionStrategy
import akka.stream.scaladsl._

val probe = TestProbe()

val source: Source[String, ActorRef] = Source.actorRefWithBackpressure[String](
  ackMessage = "ack",
  // complete when we send akka.actor.status.Success
  completionMatcher = {
    case _: Success => CompletionStrategy.immediately
  },
  // do not fail on any message
  failureMatcher = PartialFunction.empty)
val actorRef: ActorRef = source.to(Sink.foreach(println)).run()

probe.send(actorRef, "hello")
probe.expectMsg("ack")
probe.send(actorRef, "hello")
probe.expectMsg("ack")

// The stream completes successfully with the following message
actorRef ! Success(())

Java

copysourceimport akka.actor.ActorRef;
import akka.stream.OverflowStrategy;
import akka.stream.CompletionStrategy;
import akka.stream.javadsl.Sink;
import akka.testkit.TestProbe;
Source<String, ActorRef> source =
    Source.<String>actorRefWithBackpressure(
        "ack",
        // complete when we send "complete"
        o -> {
          if (o == "complete") return Optional.of(CompletionStrategy.draining());
          else return Optional.empty();
        },
        // do not fail on any message
        o -> Optional.empty());

ActorRef actorRef = source.to(Sink.foreach(System.out::println)).run(system);
probe.send(actorRef, "hello");
probe.expectMsg("ack");
probe.send(actorRef, "hello");
probe.expectMsg("ack");

// The stream completes successfully with the following message
actorRef.tell("complete", ActorRef.noSender());

Reactive Streams semantics