前面我们讲到了Actor的消息传递,并看到了如何发送一条fire-n-forget消息(也就是说,消息发送给Actor后我们就不管了,不从Actor那接收响应)。
技术上来讲,消息发送给Actor就是希望能有副作用的。设计上便是如此。目标Actor可以不做响应,也可以做如下两件事情——
1. 给发送方回复一条响应(在本例中,TeacherActor会将一句名言回复给StudentActor)
2. 将响应转发给其它的目标受众Actor,后者也可以进行响应/转发/产生副作用。Router和Supervisor就是这种情况。(很快我们就会看到)
请求及响应
本文中我们只关注第一点——请求及响应周期。
这张图说明了我们这次要做的事情。为了简单点,图中我并没有画出ActorSystem, Dispatcher以及Mailbox。
1. DriverApp将一条InitSignal消息发送给StudentActor。
2. StudentActor响应InitSignal消息并将一条QuoteRequest消息发送到TeacherActor。
3. 正如前面所说的那样,TeacherActor会回复一个QuoteResponse。
4. StudentActor将日志打印到控制台或者logger里。
同样的,我们会写一个测试用例来验证下它。
现在我们来仔细地分析下这四个步骤:
1. DRIVERAPP将一条INITSIGNAL消息发送给STUDENTACTOR

现在你应该能猜到DriverApp到底是干什么的了。它只做了4件事情:
1. 初始化ActorSystem
//Initialize the ActorSystemval system = ActorSystem("UniversityMessageSystem”)
- 创建TeacherActor
 
//create the teacher actorval teacherRef = system.actorOf(Props[TeacherActor], "teacherActor”)
- 创建StudentActor
 
//create the Student Actor - pass the teacher actorref as a constructor parameter to StudentActorval studentRef = system.actorOf(Props(new StudentActor(teacherRef)), "studentActor")
你会注意到我把TeacherActor的一个ActorRef的引用作为构造函数的参数传给了StudentActor,这样StudentActor才能够通过ActorRef来将消息发送给TeacherActor。当然还有别的方法(比如通过Props来传递),不过这么做对后续即将讲到的Supervisor和Router来说会方便一点。很快我们会看到子Actor也能实现这个功能,不过那个方法用在这里并不适合——学生来生成老师,这看起来不太对劲吧?
最后,
- DriverApp将InitSignal消息发送给了StudentActor,这样StudentActor会开始将QuoteRequest消息发送给TeacherActor。
 
//send a message to the Student ActorstudentRef ! InitSignal
DriverClass讲的已经够多了。后面的Thread.sleep和ActorSystem.shutdown就是等了几秒,以便消息发送完成,然后再最终将ActorSystem关掉。
DRIVERAPP.SCALA
package me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.requestresponseimport akka.actor.ActorSystemimport akka.actor.Propsimport me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.protocols.StudentProtocol._import akka.actor.ActorRefobject DriverApp extends App {//Initialize the ActorSystemval system = ActorSystem("UniversityMessageSystem")//construct the teacher actorval teacherRef = system.actorOf(Props[TeacherActor], "teacherActor")//construct the Student Actor - pass the teacher actorref as a constructor parameter to StudentActorval studentRef = system.actorOf(Props(new StudentActor(teacherRef)), "studentActor")//send a message to the Student ActorstudentRef ! InitSignal//Let's wait for a couple of seconds before we shut down the systemThread.sleep(2000)//Shut down the ActorSystem.system.shutdown()}
2. STUDENTACTOR响应INITSIGNAL消息并将QUOTEREQUEST消息发送给TEACHERACTOR
4. STUDENTACTOR接收到TEACHERACTOR回复的QuoteResponse然后将日志打印到控制台/logger上来
为什么我把第2和第4点放到一起来讲?因为它太简单了,如果分开讲的话我怕你嫌我啰嗦。
那么,第2步——StudentActor接收到DriverApp发过来的InitSingal消息并将QuoteRequest发送给TeacherActor。
def receive = {case InitSignal=> {teacherActorRef!QuoteRequest}......
搞定!
第4步——StudentActor将TeacherActor发过来的消息打印出来。
说到做到:
case QuoteResponse(quoteString) => {log.info ("Received QuoteResponse from Teacher")log.info(s"Printing from Student Actor $quoteString")}
我猜你肯定觉得这很像是伪代码。
那么,完整的StudentActor应该是这样的:
STUDENTACTOR.SCALA
package me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.requestresponseimport akka.actor.Actorimport akka.actor.ActorLoggingimport me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.protocols.TeacherProtocol._import me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.protocols.StudentProtocol._import akka.actor.Propsimport akka.actor.ActorRefclass StudentActor (teacherActorRef:ActorRef) extends Actor with ActorLogging {def receive = {case InitSignal=> {teacherActorRef!QuoteRequest}case QuoteResponse(quoteString) => {log.info ("Received QuoteResponse from Teacher")log.info(s"Printing from Student Actor $quoteString")}}}
3. TeacherActor回复QuoteResponse
这和我们在前面的fire-n-forget那篇)中看到的代码是类似的。
TeacherActor接收到QuoteRequest消息然后回复一个QuoteResponse。
TEACHERACTOR.SCALA
package me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.requestresponseimport scala.util.Randomimport akka.actor.Actorimport akka.actor.ActorLoggingimport akka.actor.actorRef2Scalaimport me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.protocols.TeacherProtocol._class TeacherActor extends Actor with ActorLogging {val quotes = List("Moderation is for cowards","Anything worth doing is worth overdoing","The trouble is you think you have time","You never gonna know if you never even try")def receive = {case QuoteRequest => {import util.Random//Get a random Quote from the list and construct a responseval quoteResponse = QuoteResponse(quotes(Random.nextInt(quotes.size)))//respond back to the Student who is the original sender of QuoteRequestsender ! quoteResponse}}}
测试用例
现在,我们的测试用例会来模拟下DriverApp。由于StudentActor只是打印了个日志消息,我们没法对QuoteResponse本身进行断言,那么我们就看下EventStream中是不是有这条日志消息就好了(就像上回做的那样)
那么,我们的测试用例看起来会是这样的:
"A student" must {"log a QuoteResponse eventually when an InitSignal is sent to it" in {import me.rerun.akkanotes.messaging.protocols.StudentProtocol._val teacherRef = system.actorOf(Props[TeacherActor], "teacherActor")val studentRef = system.actorOf(Props(new StudentActor(teacherRef)), "studentActor")EventFilter.info (start="Printing from Student Actor", occurrences=1).intercept{studentRef!InitSignal}}}
