Akka Cookbook

How to do it...

For this recipe, we need to perform the following steps:

1. We need to bring the required dependencies.
2. Edit the build.sbt file and add Akka Stream dependency, as follows:

        libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.akka" % "akka-        contrib_2.11" % "2.4.4"

3. To begin with, let's create an actor that simulates getting latest posts from a social network. Create a file named SocialMediaHandler.scala inside the com.packt.chapter10 package. The content should look like this:

        package com.packt.chapter10        import akka.actor.{Actor, ActorLogging}        import com.packt.chapter10.SocialMediaAggregator.        {GetLatestPosts, LatestPostResult, Post}        import scala.util.Random        class SocialMediaHandler(socialMedia: String) extends Actor          with ActorLogging ...