Interface IIndirectActorProducer

This interface defines a class of actor creation strategies deviating from the usual default of just reflectively instantiating the Actor subclass. It can be used to allow a dependency injection framework to determine the actual actor class and how it shall be instantiated.

Namespace: Akka.Actor
Assembly: Akka.dll
Syntax
public interface IIndirectActorProducer

Properties

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ActorType

This method is used by Props to determine the type of actor to create. The returned type is not used to produce the actor.

Declaration
Type ActorType { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
Type

The type of the actor created.

Methods

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Produce()

This factory method must produce a fresh actor instance upon each invocation. It is not permitted to return the same instance more than once.

Declaration
ActorBase Produce()
Returns
Type Description
ActorBase

A fresh actor instance.
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Release(ActorBase)

This method is used by Props to signal the producer that it can release it's reference. To learn more about using Dependency Injection in .NET, see HERE.

Declaration
void Release(ActorBase actor)
Parameters
Type Name Description
ActorBase actor

The actor to release

Extension Methods