document RemoteRouterConfig, see #1846

- fix Java API
- change to pass in Addresses so that validation happens earlier

akka-docs/java/code/akka/docs/jrouting/RouterViaProgramExample.java

@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ package akka.docs.jrouting;
 
 import akka.routing.RoundRobinRouter;
 import akka.routing.DefaultResizer;
+import akka.routing.RemoteRouterConfig;
 import akka.actor.ActorRef;
 import akka.actor.Props;
 import akka.actor.UntypedActor;
 import akka.actor.ActorSystem;
+import akka.actor.Address;
+import akka.actor.AddressExtractor;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 public class RouterViaProgramExample {
@@ -67,6 +70,14 @@ public class RouterViaProgramExample {
     for (int i = 1; i <= 6; i++) {
       router3.tell(new ExampleActor.Message(i));
     }
+    
+    //#remoteRoutees
+    Address addr1 = new Address("akka", "remotesys", "otherhost", 1234);
+    Address addr2 = AddressExtractor.parse("akka://othersys@anotherhost:1234");
+    Address[] addresses = new Address[] { addr1, addr2 };
+    ActorRef routerRemote = system.actorOf(new Props(ExampleActor.class)
+      .withRouter(new RemoteRouterConfig(new RoundRobinRouter(5), addresses)));
+    //#remoteRoutees
   }
   
   private class CompileCheckJavaDocsForRouting extends UntypedActor {

akka-docs/java/routing.rst

@@ -54,6 +54,18 @@ Once you have the router actor it is just to send messages to it as you would to
 
 The router will apply its behavior to the message it receives and forward it to the routees.
 
+Remotely Deploying Routees
+**************************
+
+In addition to being able to supply looked-up remote actors as routees, you can
+make the router deploy its created children on a set of remote hosts; this will
+be done in round-robin fashion. In order to do that, wrap the router
+configuration in a :class:`RemoteRouterConfig`, attaching the remote addresses of
+the nodes to deploy to. Naturally, this requires your to include the
+``akka-remote`` module on your classpath:
+
+.. includecode:: code/akka/docs/jrouting/RouterViaProgramExample.java#remoteRoutees
+
 How Routing is Designed within Akka
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 

akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/routing/RouterViaProgramExample.scala

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package akka.docs.routing
 import akka.routing.RoundRobinRouter
 import akka.actor.{ ActorRef, Props, Actor, ActorSystem }
 import akka.routing.DefaultResizer
+import akka.routing.RemoteRouterConfig
 
 case class Message1(nbr: Int)
 
@@ -40,4 +41,13 @@ object RoutingProgrammaticallyExample extends App {
   //#programmaticRoutingWithResizer
   1 to 6 foreach { i ⇒ router3 ! Message1(i) }
 
+  //#remoteRoutees
+  import akka.actor.{ Address, AddressExtractor }
+  val addresses = Seq(
+    Address("akka", "remotesys", "otherhost", 1234),
+    AddressExtractor("akka://othersys@anotherhost:1234"))
+  val routerRemote = system.actorOf(Props[ExampleActor1].withRouter(
+    RemoteRouterConfig(RoundRobinRouter(5), addresses)))
+  //#remoteRoutees
+
 }

akka-docs/scala/routing.rst

@@ -54,6 +54,18 @@ Once you have the router actor it is just to send messages to it as you would to
 
 The router will apply its behavior to the message it receives and forward it to the routees.
 
+Remotely Deploying Routees
+**************************
+
+In addition to being able to supply looked-up remote actors as routees, you can
+make the router deploy its created children on a set of remote hosts; this will
+be done in round-robin fashion. In order to do that, wrap the router
+configuration in a :class:`RemoteRouterConfig`, attaching the remote addresses of
+the nodes to deploy to. Naturally, this requires your to include the
+``akka-remote`` module on your classpath:
+
+.. includecode:: code/akka/docs/routing/RouterViaProgramExample.scala#remoteRoutees
+
 How Routing is Designed within Akka
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 

akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/RemoteDeployer.scala

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class RemoteDeployer(_settings: ActorSystem.Settings, _pm: DynamicAccess) extend
           case AddressExtractor(r) ⇒ Some(deploy.copy(scope = RemoteScope(r)))
           case str ⇒
             if (!str.isEmpty) throw new ConfigurationException("unparseable remote node name " + str)
-            val nodes = deploy.config.getStringList("target.nodes").asScala
+            val nodes = deploy.config.getStringList("target.nodes").asScala map (AddressExtractor(_))
             if (nodes.isEmpty || deploy.routerConfig == NoRouter) d
             else Some(deploy.copy(routerConfig = RemoteRouterConfig(deploy.routerConfig, nodes)))
         }

akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/routing/RemoteRouterConfig.scala

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ import akka.config.ConfigurationException
 import akka.remote.RemoteScope
 import akka.actor.AddressExtractor
 import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy
+import akka.actor.Address
+
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 
 /**
  * [[akka.routing.RouterConfig]] implementation for remote deployment on defined
@@ -21,7 +24,10 @@ import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy
  * which makes it possible to mix this with the built-in routers such as
  * [[akka.routing.RoundRobinRouter]] or custom routers.
  */
-case class RemoteRouterConfig(local: RouterConfig, nodes: Iterable[String]) extends RouterConfig {
+case class RemoteRouterConfig(local: RouterConfig, nodes: Iterable[Address]) extends RouterConfig {
+
+  def this(local: RouterConfig, nodes: java.lang.Iterable[Address]) = this(local, nodes.asScala)
+  def this(local: RouterConfig, nodes: Array[Address]) = this(local, nodes: Iterable[Address])
 
   override def createRouteeProvider(context: ActorContext) = new RemoteRouteeProvider(nodes, context, resizer)
 
@@ -49,17 +55,11 @@ case class RemoteRouterConfig(local: RouterConfig, nodes: Iterable[String]) exte
  *
  * Routee paths may not be combined with remote target nodes.
  */
-class RemoteRouteeProvider(nodes: Iterable[String], _context: ActorContext, _resizer: Option[Resizer])
+class RemoteRouteeProvider(nodes: Iterable[Address], _context: ActorContext, _resizer: Option[Resizer])
   extends RouteeProvider(_context, _resizer) {
 
   // need this iterator as instance variable since Resizer may call createRoutees several times
-  private val nodeAddressIter = {
-    val nodeAddresses = nodes map {
-      case AddressExtractor(a) ⇒ a
-      case x                   ⇒ throw new ConfigurationException("unparseable remote node " + x)
-    }
-    Stream.continually(nodeAddresses).flatten.iterator
-  }
+  private val nodeAddressIter = Stream.continually(nodes).flatten.iterator
 
   override def createRoutees(props: Props, nrOfInstances: Int, routees: Iterable[String]): IndexedSeq[ActorRef] =
     (nrOfInstances, routees, nodes) match {

akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteRouterSpec.scala

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ akka.actor.deployment {
 
     "deploy its children on remote host driven by programatic definition" in {
       val router = system.actorOf(Props[Echo].withRouter(new RemoteRouterConfig(RoundRobinRouter(2),
-        Seq("akka://remote_sys@localhost:12347"))), "blub2")
+        Seq(Address("akka", "remote_sys", "localhost", 12347)))), "blub2")
       val replies = for (i ← 1 to 5) yield {
         router ! ""
         expectMsgType[ActorRef].path