fi.jumi.actors

Class ActorRef<T>

java.lang.Object

fi.jumi.actors.ActorRef<T>

@ThreadSafe
public class ActorRef<T>
extends Object

Handle for communicating with an actor.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
T	tell() Used for sending asynchronous messages to an actor.
static <T> ActorRef<T>	wrap(T proxy) Can be used to wrap test doubles into ActorRefs for unit testing purposes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

wrap

public static <T> ActorRef<T> wrap(T proxy)

Can be used to wrap test doubles into ActorRefs for unit testing purposes.

Warning: Never use this method in production code! This method is meant to be used only by the Actors class.

tell

public T tell()

Used for sending asynchronous messages to an actor. The recommended usage pattern is actorRef.tell().theMessage(theParameters)

To avoid confusion, the proxy returned from this method should never be stored in a variable or passed as a parameter to a method. Otherwise it can be hard to know that when you are holding the real actor object and when a proxy to it. Though that may sometimes be warranted when interacting with actor-unaware code or if you wish to avoid the dependency to ActorRef.