pekko/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/pattern/Patterns.scala
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/**
* Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Typesafe Inc. <http://www.typesafe.com>
*/
package akka.pattern
object Patterns {
import akka.actor.{ ActorRef, ActorSystem }
import akka.dispatch.Future
import akka.pattern.{ ask scalaAsk, pipe scalaPipe }
import akka.util.{ Timeout, Duration }
/**
* <i>Java API for `akka.pattern.ask`:</i>
* Sends a message asynchronously and returns a [[akka.dispatch.Future]]
* holding the eventual reply message; this means that the target actor
* needs to send the result to the `sender` reference provided. The Future
* will be completed with an [[akka.actor.AskTimeoutException]] after the
* given timeout has expired; this is independent from any timeout applied
* while awaiting a result for this future (i.e. in
* `Await.result(..., timeout)`).
*
* <b>Warning:</b>
* When using future callbacks, inside actors you need to carefully avoid closing over
* the containing actors object, i.e. do not call methods or access mutable state
* on the enclosing actor from within the callback. This would break the actor
* encapsulation and may introduce synchronization bugs and race conditions because
* the callback will be scheduled concurrently to the enclosing actor. Unfortunately
* there is not yet a way to detect these illegal accesses at compile time.
*
* <b>Recommended usage:</b>
*
* {{{
* final Future<Object> f = Patterns.ask(worker, request, timeout);
* f.onSuccess(new Procedure<Object>() {
* public void apply(Object o) {
* nextActor.tell(new EnrichedResult(request, o));
* }
* });
* }}}
*/
def ask(actor: ActorRef, message: Any, timeout: Timeout): Future[AnyRef] = scalaAsk(actor, message)(timeout).asInstanceOf[Future[AnyRef]]
/**
* <i>Java API for `akka.pattern.ask`:</i>
* Sends a message asynchronously and returns a [[akka.dispatch.Future]]
* holding the eventual reply message; this means that the target actor
* needs to send the result to the `sender` reference provided. The Future
* will be completed with an [[akka.actor.AskTimeoutException]] after the
* given timeout has expired; this is independent from any timeout applied
* while awaiting a result for this future (i.e. in
* `Await.result(..., timeout)`).
*
* <b>Warning:</b>
* When using future callbacks, inside actors you need to carefully avoid closing over
* the containing actors object, i.e. do not call methods or access mutable state
* on the enclosing actor from within the callback. This would break the actor
* encapsulation and may introduce synchronization bugs and race conditions because
* the callback will be scheduled concurrently to the enclosing actor. Unfortunately
* there is not yet a way to detect these illegal accesses at compile time.
*
* <b>Recommended usage:</b>
*
* {{{
* final Future<Object> f = Patterns.ask(worker, request, timeout);
* f.onSuccess(new Procedure<Object>() {
* public void apply(Object o) {
* nextActor.tell(new EnrichedResult(request, o));
* }
* });
* }}}
*/
def ask(actor: ActorRef, message: Any, timeoutMillis: Long): Future[AnyRef] = scalaAsk(actor, message)(new Timeout(timeoutMillis)).asInstanceOf[Future[AnyRef]]
/**
* Register an onComplete callback on this [[akka.dispatch.Future]] to send
* the result to the given actor reference. Returns the original Future to
* allow method chaining.
*
* <b>Recommended usage example:</b>
*
* {{{
* final Future<Object> f = Patterns.ask(worker, request, timeout);
* // apply some transformation (i.e. enrich with request info)
* final Future<Object> transformed = f.map(new akka.japi.Function<Object, Object>() { ... });
* // send it on to the next stage
* Patterns.pipe(transformed, nextActor);
* }}}
*/
def pipe[T](future: Future[T], recipient: ActorRef): Future[T] = scalaPipe(future) pipeTo recipient
/**
* Returns a [[akka.dispatch.Future]] that will be completed with success (value `true`) when
* existing messages of the target actor has been processed and the actor has been
* terminated.
*
* Useful when you need to wait for termination or compose ordered termination of several actors.
*
* If the target actor isn't terminated within the timeout the [[akka.dispatch.Future]]
* is completed with failure [[akka.actor.ActorTimeoutException]].
*/
def gracefulStop(target: ActorRef, timeout: Duration, system: ActorSystem): Future[java.lang.Boolean] =
akka.pattern.gracefulStop(target, timeout)(system).asInstanceOf[Future[java.lang.Boolean]]
}