* Essentially as already described in cluster specification,
but now fully implemented and tested with LargeClusterSpec
* Gossip to nodes with different view (using seen table)
with certain probability
* Gossip chat, gossip back to sender
* Immediate gossip to joining node
* Updated some tests to reflect current implementation
* Implement the join to seed nodes process
When a new node is started started it sends a message to all
seed nodes and then sends join command to the one that answers
first.
* Configuration of seed-nodes and auto-join
* New JoinSeedNodeSpec that verifies the auto join to seed nodes
* In tests seed nodes are configured by overriding seedNodes
function, since addresses are not known before start
* Deputy nodes are the live members of the seed nodes (not sure if
that will be the final solution, see ticket 2252
* Updated cluster.rst with latest info about deputy and seed nodes
- introducing RepointableActorRef, which starts out with an
UnstartedActorCell which can cheaply be created; the Supervise()
message will trigger child.activate() in the supervisor, which means
that the actual creation (now with normal ActorCell) happens exactly
in the right place and with the right semantics. Messages which were
enqueued to the dummy cell are transferred atomically into the
ActorCell (using normal .tell()), so message sends keep working
exactly as they used to
- this enables getting rid of the brittle synchronization around
RoutedActorRef by replacing that one with a RepointableActorRef
subclass which creates RoutedActorCells upon activate(), with the nice
benefit that there is no hurry then to get it right because the new
cell is constructed “on the side”
misc fixes:
- InvalidMessageException is now actually enforced when trying to send
“null”
- Mailboxes may be created without having an ActorCell, which can come
in handy later, because the cell is only needed when this mailbox is
going to be scheduled on some executor
- remove occurrences of Props(), which is equivalent to Props[Nothing],
which is equivalent to «bug»
- add test case which verifies that context.actorOf is still synchronous
- plus all the stuff I have forgotten.
