abstract class Behavior[T] extends AnyRef

The behavior of an actor defines how it reacts to the messages that it receives. The message may either be of the type that the Actor declares and which is part of the ActorRef signature, or it may be a system Signal that expresses a lifecycle event of either this actor or one of its child actors.

Behaviors can be formulated in a number of different ways, either by using the DSLs in akka.actor.typed.scaladsl.Behaviors and akka.actor.typed.javadsl.Behaviors or extending the abstract ExtensibleBehavior class.

Closing over ActorContext makes a Behavior immobile: it cannot be moved to another context and executed there, and therefore it cannot be replicated or forked either.

This base class is not meant to be extended by user code. If you do so, you may lose binary compatibility.

Not for user extension.

Self Type
Behavior[T]
Annotations
@ApiMayChange() @DoNotInherit()
Source
Behavior.scala
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AnyRef, Any
Known Subclasses
ExtensibleBehavior, AbstractBehavior, Receive, AbstractBehavior, Receive
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Instance Constructors

  1. new Behavior()

Value Members

  1. val behavior: Behavior[T]
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from Behavior[T] to BehaviorDecorators[T] performed by method BehaviorDecorators in akka.actor.typed.Behavior.
    Definition Classes
    BehaviorDecorators
  2. final def narrow[U <: T]: Behavior[U]

    Narrow the type of this Behavior, which is always a safe operation.

    Narrow the type of this Behavior, which is always a safe operation. This method is necessary to implement the contravariant nature of Behavior (which cannot be expressed directly due to type inference problems).

  3. final def orElse(that: Behavior[T]): Behavior[T]

    Composes this Behavior with a fallback Behavior which is used when this Behavior doesn't handle the message or signal, i.e. when unhandled is returned.

    Composes this Behavior with a fallback Behavior which is used when this Behavior doesn't handle the message or signal, i.e. when unhandled is returned.

    that

    the fallback Behavior

  4. def widen[U](matcher: PartialFunction[U, T]): Behavior[U]

    Widen the wrapped Behavior by placing a funnel in front of it: the supplied PartialFunction decides which message to pull in (those that it is defined at) and may transform the incoming message to place them into the wrapped Behavior’s type hierarchy.

    Widen the wrapped Behavior by placing a funnel in front of it: the supplied PartialFunction decides which message to pull in (those that it is defined at) and may transform the incoming message to place them into the wrapped Behavior’s type hierarchy. Signals are not transformed.

    Example:

    receive[String] { (ctx, msg) => println(msg); same }.widen[Number] {
  case b: BigDecimal => s"BigDecimal($b)"
  case i: BigInteger => s"BigInteger($i)"
  // all other kinds of Number will be `unhandled`
}

    Scheduled messages via akka.actor.typed.scaladsl.TimerScheduler can currently not be used together with widen, see issue #25318.

    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from Behavior[T] to BehaviorDecorators[T] performed by method BehaviorDecorators in akka.actor.typed.Behavior.
    Definition Classes
    BehaviorDecorators