Modern Akka DI with Guice

Question

Java 8, Guice 4.0 and Akka 2.3.9 here. I am trying to figure out how to annotate my actor classes with JSR330-style @Inject annotations, and then wire them all up v

Answer 1

Unless you are trying to bind UntypedActor to FizzActor, then you can just inject it into other classes as is:

class SomeOtherClass {

    @Inject 
    public SomeOtherClass(FizzActor fizzActor) {
        //do stuff
    }
}

If you're trying to bind it to the interface, you'll need to specifically do that in the module:

public class MyActorSystemModule extends AbstractModule {
    @Override
    public void configure() {
        bind(MyService.class).to(MyServiceImpl.class);
        bind(UntypedActor.class).to(FizzActor.class);
    }
}

Edit:

What about using @Named to distinguish the UntypedActor, e.g.:

class SomeOtherClass {

    @Inject 
    public SomeOtherClass(@Named("fizzActor")UntypedActor fizzActor, @Named("fooActor") UntypedActor fooActor) {
        //do stuff
    }
}

Then in your module you could do the akka lookups:

public class MyActorSystemModule extends AbstractModule {

    ActorSystem system = ActorSystem.create("MySystem");

    @Override
    public void configure() {
        bind(MyService.class).to(MyServiceImpl.class);
    }

    @Provides
    @Named("fizzActor")
    public UntypedActor getFizzActor() {
        return system.actorOf(Props.create(FizzActor.class), "fizzActor");
    }

    @Provides
    @Named("fooActor")
    public UntypedActor getFooActor() {
        return system.actorOf(Props.create(FooActor.class), "fooActor");
    }
}