* Receive class that wraps PartialFunction, to avoid
scary scala types
* move AbstractActorContext to AbstractActor.ActorContext
* converting docs, many, many UntypedActor
* removing UntypedActor docs
* add unit test for ReceiveBuilder
* MiMa filters
* consistent use of getContext(), self(), sender()
* rename cross references
* migration guide
* skip samples for now
* improve match type safetyi, add matchUnchecked
* the `? extends P` caused code like this to compile:
`match(String.class, (Integer i) -> {})`
* added matchUnchecked, since it can still be useful (um, convenient)
to be able to do:
`matchUnchecked(List.class, (List<String> list) -> {})`
* eleminate some scala.Option
* preRestart
* findChild
* ActorIdentity.getActorRef
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
- ...
