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Actor Communication

An actor alone is a somewhat useless construct; actors need to work together. Actors can send messages to one another by using the dispatch method.

In this example, the actors Ping and Pong are playing a perfect ping-pong match. To start the match, we dispatch a message to ping and specify that the sender in msgType is pong.

open Nact;

open Nact.Operators;

let system = start();

type msgType =
  | Msg(actorRef(msgType), string);

let ping: actorRef(msgType) =
  spawnStateless(
    ~name="ping",
    system,
    (Msg(sender, msg), ctx) => {
      print_endline(msg);
      dispatch(sender, Msg(ctx.self, ctx.name)) |> Js.Promise.resolve
    }
  );

let pong: actorRef(msgType) =
  spawnStateless(
    ~name="pong",
    system,
    (Msg(sender, msg), ctx) => {
      print_endline(msg);
      /* Here we're using the <-< operator as a shorthand for the dispatch method */
      sender <-< Msg(ctx.self, ctx.name) |> Js.Promise.resolve
    }
  );

ping <-< Msg(pong, "hello");

This produces the following console output:

begin
ping
pong
ping
pong
ping
...