- it’s a completely new-written thing in pure Java, so that “protected”
modifiers actually work and no ghost errors appear wrt. inheriting
from PartialFunction or similar
- it also features integration with the EventFilter
- all closure-based constructs are modeled as inner classes of the
JavaTestKit, where the user needs to override a single method which
will then be executed
- 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.
- do not use futures, do not use different executors
- only use Poll token; schedule OR poller.poll in case of no message
available, depending on the sign of the poll timeout
- restructure receive method to avoid PartialFunction.orElse overhead
* ActorTimeout (akka.actor.timeout) was used to all sorts of things.
* TestKit default-timeout
* TypedActor timeout for non void methods
* Transactor coordinated-timeout
* ZeroMQ new-socket-timeout
* And in various tests
* Changed signatures and constructor of MessageDispatcherConfigurator
* Changed Dispatchers.lookup, keep configurators instead of dispatchers
* Removed most of the Dispatchers.newX methods, newDispatcher is still there because of priority mailbox
* How should we make it easy to configure priority mailbox?
* Changed tons tests
* Documentation and ScalaDoc is not updated yet
* Some tests in ActorModelSpec are temporary ignored due to failure
* Added JavaActorContext, UntypedActor.getContext
* implicit val context in Actor needs to be implicit to support forward,
it would be nice if it wasn't implicit because now I can't override context
in UntypedActor
* Removed implicit def system in Actor
* Removed implicit def defaultTimeout in Actor
* Removed receiveTimeout, children, dispatcher, become, unbecome, watch,
unwatch in Actor
* Removed corresponding as above from UntypedActor
* Removed implicit from dispatcher in ActorSystem
* Removed implicit def timeout in TypedActor
* Changed receiveTimeout to use Duration (in api)
* Changed many tests and samples to match new api
* Dispatchers need Scheduler to be able to shutdown themselves. Stop Scheduler after dispatchers.
* Changed CallingThreadDispatcher global object to Extension, since it holds map of references to mailboxes. Will be GC:ed when system is GC:ed.
* Made testActor lazy, since it is not used in all tests, and it creates CallingThreadDispatcher.
* Activated some java tests that were not running
* Many tests were not stopping created ActorSystems. VERY IMPORTANT TO STOP ActorSystem in tests. Use AkkaSpec as much as possible.
* Used profiler to verify (and find) dangling ActorSystemImpl and threads from dispatchers.
* FutureSpec creates ForkJoinPool threads that are not cleared, but number of threads don't grow so it's not a problem.
* Split config reference to one for each module/extension.
* Adjusted signature of registerExtension to avoid race of extension init
* Moved Duration.dilated to testkit
* TestKitExtension
* RemoteExtension
* SerializationExtension
* Durable mailboxes extensions
* Fixed broken serialization bindings and added test
* Updated configuration documentation
* System properties akka.remote.hostname akka.remote.port replaced with akka.remote.server.hostname and akka.remote.server.port
* Adjustments of ActorSystem initialization. Still don't like the two-phase constructor/init flow. Very fragile for changes.
Review fixes. SerializationExtension
- ensure that no “complex” things are attached to a LogEvent (think
serialization)
- ensure no escaping the “this” reference via LoggingBus during
constructors (e.g. ActorSystem)
- change it so that
+ Actor/ActorRef are represented by their address
+ Class[_] by simpleName
+ String by itself
- this means that people need to think a little more while deciding how
“this” should look like in logging (which I think is a good thing)
- create ActorSystemImpl trait to make ActorSystem fully abstract
- add Java API for constructing (ActorSystem.create(...))
- only go through factory methods because .start() has become necessary
- rename all user-facing occurrences of “app” to “system” (Actor trait
and TestKit/AkkaSpec)
- pass ActorSystemImpl to ActorRefs upon creation, which means that
actorOf() and friends need such an argument, which must be provided to
the ActorRefProvider by the ActorRefFactory implementation
(cascading into all dispatchers, mailboxes, other stuff; had to move
deadLetter stuff to ActorSystem again and split its initialization due
to cyclic dependency)
