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POMix normal method calls with messages when using Actors?
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copied!<p>I'm writing a comet application in lift and some of my actors have references to other actors, eg user A has actor B which has a variable storing actor C which is associated with user D.</p> <p>Some user actions by A should result in their actor B sending a message to actor C.</p> <p>These things are triggered by user A.</p> <p>My question is, is it ok to call regular methods on the actor B which result in it sending a message to C, or should I instead be sending a message to A which it receives and then sends the message to B.</p> <p>To put it in code, is this kind of thing ok:</p> <pre><code>//in some snippet: val actorB: ActorB = session.map(.findCometActor(...)) "#some-button" #> SHtml.ajaxInvoke(() => actorB.sendIt(777)) //is this ok? //the actors: case class MyMessage(someInt: Int, someString: String) class ActorB extends CometActor { private var someString = "" private var otherActor: Box[CometActor] = Empty def sendIt(someInt: Int) = otherActor ! MyMessage(someInt, someString) } class ActorC extends CometActor { def lowPriority = { case MyMessage(num, str) => println(num + str) } } </code></pre> <p>Or should the snippet code be sending a message to actor B which will then send a message to actor C rather than calling <code>actorB.sendIt(777)</code> directly?</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: Just to confirm, there are no technical problems with doing this, it is more about style and hopefully making it easier to make the code correct. Is that right?</p>

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