akka.actor

Class Props.EmptyActor

java.lang.Object

akka.actor.Props.EmptyActor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Actor

Enclosing class:

Props

public static class Props.EmptyActor
extends java.lang.Object
implements Actor

INTERNAL API

(Not because it is so immensely complicated, only because we might remove it if no longer needed internally)

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface akka.actor.Actor

Actor.emptyBehavior$, Actor.ignoringBehavior$

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EmptyActor()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ActorContext	context() Stores the context for this actor, including self, and sender.
Actor.emptyBehavior$	receive() This defines the initial actor behavior, it must return a partial function with the actor logic.
ActorRef	self() The 'self' field holds the ActorRef for this actor.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface akka.actor.Actor

aroundPostRestart, aroundPostStop, aroundPreRestart, aroundPreStart, aroundReceive, postRestart, postStop, preRestart, preStart, sender, supervisorStrategy, unhandled

Constructor Detail

EmptyActor

public EmptyActor()

Method Detail

context

public ActorContext context()

Description copied from interface: Actor

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!

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

Specified by:

context in interface Actor

Returns:

(undocumented)

self

public final ActorRef self()

Description copied from interface: Actor

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

Can be used to send messages to itself:

 self ! message
 

Specified by:

self in interface Actor

Returns:

(undocumented)

receive

public Actor.emptyBehavior$ receive()

Description copied from interface: Actor

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

Specified by:

receive in interface Actor

Returns:

(undocumented)