call methods on akka actors in scala

Question

I have a an actor defined as so:

class nodeActor(ID: String) extends Actor

which contains a method, which is used to set up the actor before it

Answer 1

If you want to do this for testing then when creating actor you can just do this:

import akka.testkit.TestActorRef
val actorRef = TestActorRef[MyActor]
val actor = actorRef.underlyingActor

Then you can run methods on actor