How actors communicate with each other

This repository contains supplemental examples for my blog article, [Golang] Protoactor-go 101: How actors communicate with each other , to cover all message passing methods for all kinds of actors provided by protoactor-go.

Local

For local message passing, see below directory:

Local Send

Use Send() for local message passing. The recipient actor cannot refer to the sender actor. Source Code

Local Request

Use Request() for local message passing. The recipient actor can refer to the sender actor. Source Code

Local Future

Use RequestFuture() for local message passing. Context.Sender() does not return the PID of sender actor but that of actor.Future. Source Code

Remote

remote/messages … Contain Protobuf serializable message structures.
remote/remote-pong … A process that returns pong message to sender.
remote/remote-ping-send … A process that sends message to pong actor by Send(). The recipient cannot refer to the sender actor.
remote/remote-ping-request … A process that sends message to pong actor by Request(). The recipient actor can refer to the sender actor.
remote/remote-ping-future … A process that sends message to pong actor by RequestFuture(). Context.Sender() does not return the PID of sender actor but that of actor.Future.

Cluster Grain

cluster/messages … Contain Protobuf serializable message structures and generated actor.Actor implementation for gRPC based communication.

Cluster Grain usage with remote communication

cluster/cluster-pong-remote … A process that returns pong message to the sender based on remote actor implementation.
cluster/cluster-ping-send … A process that sends message to pong actor by Send(). The recipient cannot refer to the sender actor.
cluster/cluster-ping-request … A process that sends message to pong actor by Request(). The recipient actor can refer to the sender actor.
cluster/cluster-ping-future … A process that sends message to pong actor by RequestFuture(). Context.Sender() does not return the PID of sender actor but that of actor.Future.

Cluster Grain usage with gRPC based communication

cluster/cluster-pong-grpc … A process that returns pong message to the sender via gRPC service.
cluster/cluster-ping-grpc … A process that sends message to pong actor over gRPC based service.