Sends a one-way asynchronous message.
Sends a one-way asynchronous message. E.g. fire-and-forget semantics.
If invoked from within an actor then the actor reference is implicitly passed on as the implicit 'sender' argument.
This actor 'sender' reference is then available in the receiving actor in the 'sender()' member variable, if invoked from within an Actor. If not then no sender is available.
actor ! message
Comparison takes path and the unique id of the actor cell into account.
Comparison takes path and the unique id of the actor cell into account.
Forwards the message and passes the original sender actor as the sender.
Forwards the message and passes the original sender actor as the sender.
Works, no matter whether originally sent with tell/'!' or ask/'?'.
Returns the path for this actor (from this actor up to the root actor).
Returns the path for this actor (from this actor up to the root actor).
Sends the specified message to this ActorRef, i.e.
Sends the specified message to this ActorRef, i.e. fire-and-forget semantics, including the sender reference if possible.
Pass akka.actor.ActorRef noSender
or null
as sender if there is nobody to reply to
Equals takes path and the unique id of the actor cell into account.
Equals takes path and the unique id of the actor cell into account.
(scalaActorRef: ActorRef).equals(that)
(scalaActorRef: ActorRef).hashCode()
(scalaActorRef: ActorRef).toString()
This trait represents the Scala Actor API There are implicit conversions in package.scala from ActorRef -> ScalaActorRef and back