WideActor

The upper bound for the collection of all accepted Senders.

The lower bound for the collection of all accepted Senders.

The super type for the state the actor can be in.

Use this inside the actor to test for an anonymous sender

The Result type for the receive method.

Send a letter with the 'tell' operator. For compatibility with Akka.

Send a letter, with the option to say who is sending it. Defaults to anonymous outside the context of an actor and to self inside an actor. Returns if the letter was accepted for delivery. Note, this does not mean it also processed. In the mean time the actor may stop.

See the current activity state of this actor

Values contains if this actor is a worker based on its name prefix (# per default)

The maximum number of letters this actor accepts. Override to change its value.

In the bare actor the path and name are equal.

Called after actor construction and guaranteed before the first message is processed. Use this to perform work to initialize the actor. Apart from a few instructions, work should not be done in the constructor itself since this effectively runs in the thread of the actor that constructed this actor. The method started() runs in its own thread. Override this with your own implementation.

Stopping of an actor is organized in levels of severity. The lowest level (Direct) terminates directly, the highest level never terminates. The latter is the default. Levels can always be decreased, increase is only possible if the stop action was not yet initiated. Direct and Finish start immediately, and cannot be retracted.

Called before actor deactivation and guaranteed after the last message is processed. If there were any unprocessed messages in this actor at tear down, complete is false. These could be in the normal mailbox or on the stash, if present. Cause returns the last stop mode, so the cause of stopping this actor is known. In case of a actorContext shutdown this is NOT called, for this disruptively terminates all processing loops. It is however called when stop(...) is used, or when the actor is shutdown by a parent. The actor may still be around after this method is called, but will never accept new messages. The parent is still defined, when stopped() is executed (but may already stopped processing messages) but all the children will already be removed from the list, and their stopped() methods have already been called. Apart from the situation described above, you can rely on started() and stopped() to always come in pairs, even when no messages are processed at all.

The final name of this actor. It will be the name given, or a generated name for unnamed actors and workers

Used as sender for all messages send from this actor without explicit sender.