February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 27m
English
When studying the actor lifecycle, we said that top-level user actors are by default restarted when an exception occurs. We now take a closer inspection at how this works. In Akka, every actor acts as a supervisor for its children. When a child fails, it suspends the processing messages, and sends a message to its parent to decide what to do about the failure. The policy that decides what happens to the parent and the child after the child fails is called the supervision strategy. The parent might decide to do the following:
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