AKKA implementation for Play 1.2.x
I have removed the need to call play with the config.file system property. Instead I am using:
ConfigFactory.parseFile(Play.getFile("conf/reference.conf"));
This project provides a very basic skeleton for integrating AKKA with Play 1.2.x. Everything is included in the project - to run do the following:
- in a command prompt run
play deps
- this will get the AKKA client jar - call
play run
The database is in memory and so will be cleared every time you run the project.
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In your dependencies.yml file include the line
com.typesafe.akka -> akka-actor_2.10 2.1.0 // this was the latest version at time of writing
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execute from the command line play deps to download the relevant libraries into your lib folder
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do some IDE goodness to get the library dependencies in setup in your conf directory a reference.conf file (this will contain config info for akka on start) - look at: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.1.0/general/configuration.html
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add
"-Dconfig.file=reference.conf"
to your VM options -
Have a static class of AppContext or similar to load in the AkkaSystem - this is just so that you create once and can reference from anywhere.
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Load the AKKA system with:
Config config = ConfigFactory.load(); public static final notificationSystem = ActorSystem.create("notification", config);
That should be enough to get running, then you just have to create some Actors to do your bidding.
I also got JPA working - if you try and access your models and lookup data, you will end up with an Uninitialised Entity Manager error.
Here is some example code for an actor with JPA access:
@Override
public void onReceive(Object o) throws Exception {
if (o instanceof SomeMessageType) { // create your own serializable class to transfer message data
SomeMessageType message = (SomeMessageType) o;
JPAPlugin.startTx(true); // true is to start this as a readonly transaction
// Do all the JPA goodness
JPAPlugin.closeTx(false); // false is for rollback - I use this because I am doing a readonly transaction
} else {
unhandled(o);
}
}
Hope this helps. I spent a good few hours trying to get everything working. I am now able to structure my async tasks rather than just spit out to Play Jobs.