An actor that will forward all received messages onto actors that
have registered to receive messages. Messages wrapped with
Persist will be held and sent to all new subscribers (to cater
for legacy EnsimeEvents that older clients expect to see on
startup).
To avoid memory leaks, non-restarting Actors should unregister when
they stop. Additional register requests for the same actor will
result in all Persist messages being sent again.
It feels crazy to be writing this because it seems like something
that should be in a standard library:
1. the EventStream very nearly does what we want but doesn't
retain information about the sender and uses method calls (not
tell). NOTE: although undocumented, subscribing to a trait
will subscribe to implementations.
2. the PubSub requires named subscriptions and requires non-tell
boilerplate on both publisher and subscriber side (although has
the advantage of better networked behaviour).
3. neither Akka solution has the concept of the "Persist" message.
An actor that will forward all received messages onto actors that have registered to receive messages. Messages wrapped with
Persistwill be held and sent to all new subscribers (to cater for legacy EnsimeEvents that older clients expect to see on startup).To avoid memory leaks, non-restarting Actors should unregister when they stop. Additional register requests for the same actor will result in all Persist messages being sent again.
It feels crazy to be writing this because it seems like something that should be in a standard library:
1. the
EventStreamvery nearly does what we want but doesn't retain information about the sender and uses method calls (nottell). NOTE: although undocumented, subscribing to atraitwill subscribe to implementations.2. the
PubSubrequires named subscriptions and requires non-tellboilerplate on both publisher and subscriber side (although has the advantage of better networked behaviour).3. neither Akka solution has the concept of the "Persist" message.