Module actor

This module contains all the core traits required to define and manage actors.

Modules

remote

Management of actor registration for remote spawning.

Structs

ActorError

Errors that occur while serving actors. Each error is associated with the ID of the actor being served.

ActorHandle

ActorHandles represent a (local) serving actor. It is used to access its messaging and signal ports, as well as to synchronize with its lifecycle (e.g., providing joins). Once dropped, the handle is detached from the underlying actor instance, and there is no longer any way to join it.

Enums

ActorErrorKind

The kinds of actor serving errors.

ActorStatus

The runtime status of an actor.

Signal

A collection of signals to control the behavior of the actor. Signals are internal runtime control plane messages and should not be sent outside of the runtime.

Traits

Actor

An Actor is an independent, asynchronous thread of execution. Each actor instance has a mailbox, whose messages are delivered through the method [Actor::handle].

Binds

Binds determines how an actor’s ports are bound to a specific reference type.

Handler

A Handler allows an actor to handle a specific message type.

RemotableActor

A RemotableActor may be spawned remotely, and receive messages across process boundaries.

RemoteActor

RemoteActor is a marker trait for types that can be used as remote actor references. All Actors are thus referencable; but other types may also implement this in order to separately specify actor interfaces.

RemoteHandles

Handles is a marker trait specifying that message type [M] is handled by a specific actor type.