On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Thomas Bernhardt <bernhardt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a question please towards routing an event to remote actors:
> Lets say I have node A hosting Akka actor A1, and node B hosting Akka actors
> B1 and B2.
> A1 needs to send the same event to B1 and B2, however the event should only
> get serialized and transported to node B once, since there can be many B
> actors.
> Is there an optimization or abstraction within Akka to make sure it is
> transported only once or do I need to write my own router perhaps?

> Thank you!
> Best regards,
> Tom

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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Thomas Bernhardt <bernhardt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you Henrik.

> The concern I would have is that I don't want my code to know where these
> B1..Bn actors live. For example, they could be B1..B10 on node B and B11 to
> B13 on node C (distributed in any random fashion). I would like Akka and
> Akka Cluster to know where these actors currently live and route
> accordingly. Is this type feature on the Akka roadmap please?

> Best regards,
> Tom
> ________________________________
> From: Henrik Engström <henrik.engst...@gmail.com>
> To: akka-user@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 1:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [akka-user] Event routing question

> Hi Tom,
> You don't have to write your own router, you can use one from Akka.
> Create a router Br on node B and have it forward the message to your
> B1...Bn actors.
> In your particular case the BroadcastRouter seems to be the right candidate.
> See http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/scala/routing.html
> Cheers
> //Henrik

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Thomas Bernhardt <bernhardt...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> I have a question please towards routing an event to remote actors:
>> Lets say I have node A hosting Akka actor A1, and node B hosting Akka
>> actors
>> B1 and B2.
>> A1 needs to send the same event to B1 and B2, however the event should
>> only
>> get serialized and transported to node B once, since there can be many B
>> actors.
>> Is there an optimization or abstraction within Akka to make sure it is
>> transported only once or do I need to write my own router perhaps?

>> Thank you!
>> Best regards,
>> Tom

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