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Scala: Guide for Data Science Professionals
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Scala: Guide for Data Science Professionals

by Pascal Bugnion, Arun Manivannan, Patrick R. Nicolas
February 2017
Beginner to intermediate
1100 pages
25h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Case classes as messages

In our "hello world" example, we constructed an actor that is expected to receive a string as message. Any object can be passed as a message, provided it is immutable. It is very common to use case classes to represent messages. This is better than using strings because of the additional type safety: the compiler will catch a typo in a case class but not in a string.

Let's rewrite our EchoActor to accept instances of case classes as messages. We will make it accept two different messages: EchoMessage(message) and EchoHello, which just echoes a default message. The examples for this section and the next are in the chap09/hello_akka_case_classes directory in the sample code provided with this book (https://github.com/pbugnion/s4ds ...

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