An actor that can watch a file or a directory Instead of directly calling the constructor of this, call file.newWatcher to create the actor
Attributes
- file
watch this file (or directory)
- maxDepth
In case of directories, how much depth should we watch
- Companion:
- object
- Graph
- Supertypes
- trait Actorclass Objecttrait Matchableclass Any
Members list
Type members
Inherited types
Attributes
- Inherited from:
- Actor
Value members
Constructors
Concrete methods
User overridable callback.
User overridable callback.
Is called asynchronously after 'actor.stop()' is invoked. Empty default implementation.
Attributes
- Definition Classes
- Actor
User overridable callback.
User overridable callback.
Is called when an Actor is started. Actors are automatically started asynchronously when created. Empty default implementation.
Attributes
- Definition Classes
- Actor
Scala API: This defines the initial actor behavior, it must return a partial function with the actor logic.
Scala API: This defines the initial actor behavior, it must return a partial function with the actor logic.
Attributes
- Definition Classes
- Actor
Inherited methods
User overridable callback: By default it calls preStart().
User overridable callback: By default it calls preStart().
Attributes
- reason
the Throwable that caused the restart to happen Is called right AFTER restart on the newly created Actor to allow reinitialization after an Actor crash.
- Inherited from:
- Actor
Scala API: User overridable callback: '''By default it disposes of all children and then calls postStop().'''
Scala API: User overridable callback: '''By default it disposes of all children and then calls postStop().'''
Attributes
- message
optionally the current message the actor processed when failing, if applicable Is called on a crashed Actor right BEFORE it is restarted to allow clean up of resources before Actor is terminated.
- reason
the Throwable that caused the restart to happen
- Inherited from:
- Actor
The reference sender Actor of the last received message.
Is defined if the message was sent from another Actor,
else deadLetters in akka.actor.ActorSystem.
The reference sender Actor of the last received message.
Is defined if the message was sent from another Actor,
else deadLetters in akka.actor.ActorSystem.
WARNING: Only valid within the Actor itself, so do not close over it and publish it to other threads!
Attributes
- Inherited from:
- Actor
User overridable definition the strategy to use for supervising child actors.
User overridable definition the strategy to use for supervising child actors.
Attributes
- Inherited from:
- Actor
User overridable callback.
User overridable callback.
Is called when a message isn't handled by the current behavior of the actor by default it fails with either a akka.actor.DeathPactException (in case of an unhandled akka.actor.Terminated message) or publishes an akka.actor.UnhandledMessage to the actor's system's akka.event.EventStream
Attributes
- Inherited from:
- Actor
Implicits
Inherited implicits
Scala API: Stores the context for this actor, including self, and sender.
It is implicit to support operations such as forward.
Scala API: Stores the context for this actor, including self, and sender.
It is implicit to support operations such as forward.
WARNING: Only valid within the Actor itself, so do not close over it and publish it to other threads!
akka.actor.ActorContext is the Scala API. getContext returns a
akka.actor.AbstractActor.ActorContext, which is the Java API of the actor
context.
Attributes
- Inherited from:
- Actor
The 'self' field holds the ActorRef for this actor.
The 'self' field holds the ActorRef for this actor.
Can be used to send messages to itself:
self ! message
Attributes
- Inherited from:
- Actor