- Journal plugin API for storage backends with asynchronous client API (default impl: in-memory journal)
- Journal plugin API for storage backends with synchronous client API (default impl: LevelDB journal)
- Snapshot store plugin API (default impl: local filesystem snapshot store)
- capture and save snapshots of processor state
- start processor recovery from saved snapshots
- snapshot storage on local filesystem
- snapshot store completely isolated from journal
- LevelDB journal modularized (and completely re-rwritten)
- In-memory journal removed
- introduce around life cycle hooks for symmetry with aroundReceive
- no custom processor-specific life cycle hooks needed any more
- preStart and preRestart can be overridden with empty implementation
(interceptors ensure that super.preXxx calls are still executed)
- all around life cycle hooks can be final
- standard life cycle hooks are non-final to preserve composability with existing traits (FSM, ...)
The most prominent changes compared to eventsourced are:
- No central processor and channel registry any more
- Auto-recovery of processors on start and restart (can be disabled)
- Recovery of processor networks doesn't require coordination
- Explicit channel activation not needed any more
- Message sequence numbers generated per processor (no gaps)
- Sender references are journaled along with messages
- Processors can determine their recovery status
- No custom API on extension object, only messages
- Journal created by extension from config, not by application
- Applications only interact with processors and channels via messages
- Internal design prepared for having processor-specific journal actors (for later optimization possibilities)
Further additions and changes during review:
- Allow processor implementation classes to use inherited stash
- Channel support to resolve (potentially invalid) sender references
- Logical intead of physical deletion of messages
- Pinned dispatcher for LevelDB journal
- Processor can handle failures during recovery
- Message renamed to Persistent
This prototype has the following limitations:
- Serialization of persistent messages and their payload via JavaSerializer only (will be configurable later)
- The LevelDB journal implementation based on a LevelDB Java port, not the native LevelDB (will be configurable later)
The following features will be added later using separate tickets:
- Snapshot-based recovery
- Reliable channels
- Journal plugin API
- Optimizations
- ...
