Class ShardingConsumerController


  • public class ShardingConsumerController
    extends java.lang.Object
    ShardingConsumerController is used together with ShardingProducerController. See the description in that class or the Akka reference documentation for how they are intended to be used.

    ShardingConsumerController is the entity that is initialized in ClusterSharding. It will manage the lifecycle and message delivery to the destination consumer actor.

    The destination consumer actor will start the flow by sending an initial ConsumerController.Start message via the ActorRef provided in the factory function of the consumer Behavior. The ActorRef in the Start message is typically constructed as a message adapter to map the ConsumerController.Delivery to the protocol of the consumer actor.

    Received messages from the producer are wrapped in ConsumerController.Delivery when sent to the consumer, which is supposed to reply with ConsumerController.Confirmed when it has processed the message. Next message from a specific producer is not delivered until the previous is confirmed. However, since there can be several producers, e.g. one per node, sending to the same destination entity there can be several Delivery in flight at the same time. More messages from a specific producer that arrive while waiting for the confirmation are stashed by the ConsumerController and delivered when previous message was confirmed.