Why does Akka not return address/host info?

Question

Akka 2.5 here. I have a need to determine if a particular ActorRef is located on the same JVM as my application. My best attempt:

someActor.path().address().host().isEmpty()

...is returning true for me (its empty; no address/host info available). Again, all I'm trying to do is determine if someActor (which is an ActorRef) is: (a) running inside the application JVM or (b) if it's a remote actor living inside another JVM and communicating w/ my app via akka-aremote.

Is there a better way to do this? Do I need to configure something inside application.conf for this to work?

Answer 1

I don't think that is the proper way of doing it.

I suggest to send a message to target actor requesting current location and have the target actor respond back with hostname or address when you can compare and see.