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
- ...
Props constructors need to be deprecated instead of being mutated
because we cannot just start throwing exceptions in people’s existing
code. Props.withCreator is deprecated for similar reasons, but also
because Props are about the creators, so replacing that after the fact
is not good style.
- also make a Write’s “ack” be a Tcp.Event (to suit pipelines)
- add stress test for BackpressureBuffer
- add it to SslTlsSupportSpec
- add it to the docs
- also added TcpPipelineHandler for wrapping a pipeline
- added Java & Scala docs with a complete example
- test verify interop with standard blocking java SSL client and server
- test is placed in akka-remote to benefit from AkkaProvider for
SecureRandom; should be moved into akka-actor eventually
also included:
- a complete rewrite of the TCP docs based on real/tested/working code
samples
- an EchoServer implementation which handles all the edge cases,
available in Java & Scala
- renamed StopReading to SuspendReading to match up with ResumeReading
- addition of Inbox.watch()
- Inbox RST docs for Java(!) and Scala
not included:
- ScalaDoc / JavaDoc for all IO stuff
- heavily inspired by spray.io.Pipeline
- fully functional style: a stage returns the resulting commands and
events, which makes it impossible to mess with the pipeline from the
inside
- object allocations are optimized away for emtpy and 1-elem results
- added type-safety, verifying that stages match up
- management commands “from the side” for configuration or async events
- full Java API and docs
* Deprecate all actorFor methods
* resolveActorRef in provider
* Identify auto receive message
* Support ActorPath in actorSelection
* Support remote actor selections
* Additional tests of actor selection
* Update tests (keep most actorFor tests)
* Update samples to use actorSelection
* Updates to documentation
* Migration guide, including motivation
* Sending to a previous incarnation of an actor shall fail,
to make remote actors work the same way as local ones (in
the sense that after Terminated() the ref is not working anymore)
* Changed equality of ActorRef to take the uid into account
* Parse uid fragment in RelativeActorPath and ActorPathExtractor
* Handle uid in getChild and in RemoteSystemDaemon
* Use toSerializationFormat and toSerializationFormatWithAddress
in serialization
* Replaced var uid in ActorCell and ChildRestartStats with
constructor parameters (path)
* Create the uid in one single place, in makeChild in parent
* Handle ActorRef with and without uid in DeathWatch
* Optimize ActorPath.toString and friends
* Update documentation and migration guide
