Accesing asking/telling with the global name of an actor

Erdem Eser Ekinci

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Feb 4, 2021, 8:13:03 AM2/4/21

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Hi,

How to access an actor with its global name?

Best.

Kevin Quick

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Feb 4, 2021, 7:20:32 PM2/4/21

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When you call `createActor`, if you specify a global name then the call will either return the ActorAddress of the existing actor with that name, or else create the global actor for that name and return the ActorAddress.

-Kevin

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Erdem Eser Ekinci

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Feb 14, 2021, 6:31:13 AM2/14/21

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Well, then is it possible to understand type of an actor from its message?

Kevin Quick

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Feb 14, 2021, 3:28:43 PM2/14/21

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When you create the actor, the actor class determines what kind of actor it is. Once created, an Actor is entirely responsible for its own messages (other than some Thespian internal messages that are handled automatically within Thespian), so you could implement any scheme you preferred for identifying actors (e.g. a RequestActorClass message that was implemented by and responded to by all of your Actors).

Regards,

Kevin

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