Java 8, Guice 4.0 and Akka 2.3.9 here. I am trying to figure out how to annotate my actor classes with JSR330-style @Inject
annotations, and then wire them all up via Guice.
But literally every single article I have read (some examples below) either uses Scala code examples, a criminally-old version of Guice, or a criminally-old version of Akka:
So, given the following Guice module:
public interface MyService {
void doSomething();
}
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {
@Override
public void doSomething() {
System.out.println("Something has been done!");
}
}
public class MyActorSystemModule extends AbstractModule {
@Override
public void configure() {
bind(MyService.class).to(MyServiceImpl.class);
}
}
And given the FizzActor
that gets injected with a MyService
:
public class FizzActor extends UntypedActor {
private final MyService myService;
@Inject
public FizzActor(MyService myService) {
super();
this.myService = myService;
}
@Override
public void onReceive(Object message) {
// .. Do fizz stuff inside here.
}
}
Then I ask: How do I rig up MyActorSystemModule
to create instances of FizzActor
and properly inject them with Java (not Scala!)?
Please note: FizzActor
is not the only actor in my actor system!
Use Creator to create
ActorRef
s in provider methods of your guice module. To distinguish between the differentActorRef
s, which are untyped, use annotations on your provider methods and injection points as you would any guice system. For example,In your guice module:
Then to use the actor service, inject a specific
ActorRef
:It looks cleaner if the
Props.create(..)
clause is a static factory method in your actor class.