Installation

go get github.com/jbrodriguez/actor

Documentation

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Rationale

Actor implements an actor-like paradigm in go.

Based on a pubsub library, the use case is as follows:

Create a central bus that will transport messages accross the system (locally only):

bus := pubsub.New(623)

Create a struct that will behave like an actor

type Server struct {
	bus *pubsub.Pubsub
	actor *actor.Actor
}

func NewServer(bus *pubsub.Pubsub) {
	server := &Server{
		bus: bus,
		actor: actor.NewActor(bus),
	}
	return server
}

func (s *Server) Start() {
	// do stuff
	s.actor.Register("topic:message", s.Handler)

	// ...
	
	s.actor.React()
}

func (s *Server) Handler(msg *pubsub.Msg) {
	// do stuff
}

A more complete example can be found here