eu.vicci.process.actors

Interface IProcessExecutionMasterActor

All Known Implementing Classes:

ProcessExecutionMasterActor

public interface IProcessExecutionMasterActor

Interface for the Master Actor(Typed) for the process execution system.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
akka.actor.ActorRef	createChildActor(akka.actor.ActorRef parent, CreateChildActorMessage message) Creates a child Actor and return its reference.
scala.concurrent.Future<Object>	sendMessageAndReceiveFuture(akka.actor.ActorRef receiver, Object message, akka.util.Timeout timeout) Sends a message and receives a future.
void	sendSimpleMessage(akka.actor.ActorRef receiver, Object message) Sends a message to the receiver.

Method Detail

sendSimpleMessage

void sendSimpleMessage(akka.actor.ActorRef receiver,
                       Object message)

Sends a message to the receiver. The sender will be this process execution master. Async Call.

Parameters:

receiver -

message -

createChildActor

akka.actor.ActorRef createChildActor(akka.actor.ActorRef parent,
                                     CreateChildActorMessage message)

Creates a child Actor and return its reference. If the parent is null, the child is applied to the ExecutionMasterActor. Blocking Call.

Parameters:

parent -

message -

Returns:

sendMessageAndReceiveFuture

scala.concurrent.Future<Object> sendMessageAndReceiveFuture(akka.actor.ActorRef receiver,
                                                            Object message,
                                                            akka.util.Timeout timeout)

Sends a message and receives a future. It can than be used to wait for a result and block the execution if needed (e.g. synchronus calls)

Parameters:

receiver -

message -

timeout -

Returns: