#2746 - document provider.getDefaultAddress

akka-docs/rst/java/code/docs/serialization/SerializationDocTestBase.java

@@ -138,12 +138,7 @@ public class SerializationDocTestBase {
     }
 
     public Address getAddress() {
-      final ActorRefProvider provider = system.provider();
-      if (provider instanceof RemoteActorRefProvider) {
-        return ((RemoteActorRefProvider) provider).transport().address();
-      } else {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("need RemoteActorRefProvider");
-      }
+      return system.provider().getDefaultAddress();
     }
   }
 

akka-docs/rst/java/serialization.rst

@@ -149,16 +149,12 @@ concrete address handy you can create a dummy one for the right protocol using
 ``new Address(protocol, "", "", 0)`` (assuming that the actual transport used is as
 lenient as Akka’s RemoteActorRefProvider).
 
-There is a possible simplification available if you are just using the default
-:class:`NettyRemoteTransport` with the :meth:`RemoteActorRefProvider`, which is
-enabled by the fact that this combination has just a single remote address:
+There is also a default remote address which is the one used by cluster support
+(and typical systems have just this one); you can get it like this:
 
 .. includecode:: code/docs/serialization/SerializationDocTestBase.java
    :include: external-address-default
 
-This solution has to be adapted once other providers are used (like the planned
-extensions for clustering).
-
 Deep serialization of Actors
 ----------------------------
 

akka-docs/rst/scala/code/docs/serialization/SerializationDocSpec.scala

@@ -2,19 +2,6 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Typesafe Inc. <http://www.typesafe.com>
  */
 
-//#extract-transport
-package object akka {
-  // needs to be inside the akka package because accessing unsupported API !
-  def transportOf(system: actor.ExtendedActorSystem): remote.RemoteTransport =
-    system.provider match {
-      case r: remote.RemoteActorRefProvider ⇒ r.transport
-      case _ ⇒
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
-          "this method requires the RemoteActorRefProvider to be configured")
-    }
-}
-//#extract-transport
-
 package docs.serialization {
 
   import org.scalatest.matchers.MustMatchers
@@ -216,7 +203,7 @@ package docs.serialization {
       object ExternalAddress extends ExtensionKey[ExternalAddressExt]
 
       class ExternalAddressExt(system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Extension {
-        def addressForAkka: Address = akka.transportOf(system).address
+        def addressForAkka: Address = system.provider.getDefaultAddress
       }
 
       def serializeAkkaDefault(ref: ActorRef): String =

akka-docs/rst/scala/serialization.rst

@@ -138,24 +138,12 @@ concrete address handy you can create a dummy one for the right protocol using
 ``Address(protocol, "", "", 0)`` (assuming that the actual transport used is as
 lenient as Akka’s RemoteActorRefProvider).
 
-There is a possible simplification available if you are just using the default
-:class:`NettyRemoteTransport` with the :meth:`RemoteActorRefProvider`, which is
-enabled by the fact that this combination has just a single remote address.
-This approach relies on internal API, which means that it is not guaranteed to
-be supported in future versions. To make this caveat more obvious, some bridge
-code in the ``akka`` package is required to make it work:
-
-.. includecode:: code/docs/serialization/SerializationDocSpec.scala
-   :include: extract-transport
-
-And with this, the address extraction goes like this:
+There is also a default remote address which is the one used by cluster support
+(and typical systems have just this one); you can get it like this:
 
 .. includecode:: code/docs/serialization/SerializationDocSpec.scala
    :include: external-address-default
 
-This solution has to be adapted once other providers are used (like the planned
-extensions for clustering).
-
 Deep serialization of Actors
 ----------------------------