Crate actix

Actix is a rust actors framework.

Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior, they communicate exclusively by exchanging messages. Actix actors are implemented on top of Tokio. Multiple actors could run in same thread. Actors could run in multiple threads with support of Arbiter. Actors exchange typed messages.

Documentation

• User Guide
• Chat on gitter
• GitHub repository
• Cargo package
• Minimum supported Rust version: 1.26 or later

Features

• Async/Sync actors.
• Actor communication in a local/thread context.
• Using Futures for asynchronous message handling.
• HTTP1/HTTP2 support (actix-web)
• Actor supervision.
• Typed messages (No Any type). Generic messages are allowed.

Package feature

• resolver - enables dns resolver actor, actix::actors::resolver
• signal - enables signals handling actor

Re-exports

pub use fut::ActorFuture;

pub use fut::ActorStream;

pub use fut::WrapFuture;

pub use fut::WrapStream;

pub use registry::ArbiterService;

pub use registry::Registry;

pub use registry::SystemRegistry;

pub use registry::SystemService;

pub use sync::SyncArbiter;

pub use sync::SyncContext;

Modules

actors	Helper actors
dev	The actix prelude for library developers
fut	Custom Future implementation with Actix support
io
msgs	Actix system messages
prelude	The actix prelude
registry	Actors registry
sync	Sync actors support
utils

Structs

ActorResponse	Helper type for representing different type of message responses
Addr	Address of the actor
Arbiter	Event loop controller
Context	Actor execution context
MessageResult	Helper type that implements MessageResponse trait
Recipient	Recipient type allows to send one specific message to an actor.
Response	Helper type for representing different type of message responses
SpawnHandle	Spawned future handle. Could be used for cancelling spawned future.
Supervisor	Actor supervisor
System	System is an actor which manages runtime.
SystemRunner	Helper object that runs System's event loop

Enums

ActorState	Actor execution state
MailboxError	Set of error that can occurred during message delivery process
Running

Traits

Actor	Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior.
ActorContext	Actor execution context
AsyncContext	Asynchronous execution context
Handler	Message handler
Message	Message type
StreamHandler	Stream handler
Supervised	Actors with ability to restart after failure

Functions

run	Start the System and execute supplied future.
spawn	Spawns a future on the current arbiter.

Type Definitions

ResponseActFuture	A specialized actor future for async message handler
ResponseFuture	A specialized future for async message handler