Crate actix

Actix is an actor 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 can run in same thread. Actors can run in multiple threads using the Arbiter API. Actors exchange typed messages.

Other Documentation

• User Guide
• Community Chat on Gitter

Features

• Async/Sync actors
• Actor communication in a local/thread context
• Using Futures for asynchronous message handling
• Actor supervision
• Typed messages (No Any type). Generic messages are allowed
• Runs on stable Rust 1.40+

Package feature

• resolver - enables DNS resolver actor; see resolver module

Re-exports

pub use crate::fut::ActorFuture;

pub use crate::fut::ActorFutureExt;

pub use crate::fut::ActorStream;

pub use crate::fut::ActorStreamExt;

pub use crate::fut::WrapFuture;

pub use crate::fut::WrapStream;

pub use crate::registry::ArbiterService;

pub use crate::registry::Registry;

pub use crate::registry::SystemRegistry;

pub use crate::registry::SystemService;

pub use crate::sync::SyncArbiter;

pub use crate::sync::SyncContext;

Modules

actors	Helper actors
clock	Utilities for tracking time.
dev	The actix prelude for library developers.
fut	Custom Future and Stream implementation with Actix support
io
prelude	The actix prelude.
registry	Actors registry
sync	Sync Actors support
utils

Structs

ActorResponse	A helper type for representing different types of message responses.
Addr	The address of an actor.
Arbiter	An Arbiter represents a thread that provides an asynchronous execution environment for futures and functions.
ArbiterHandle	A handle for sending spawn and stop messages to an Arbiter.
AtomicResponse	A specialized actor future holder for atomic asynchronous message handling.
Context	An actor execution context.
MessageResult	A helper type that implements the MessageResponse trait.
Recipient	The Recipient type allows to send one specific message to an actor.
Response	Helper type for representing different type of message responses
SpawnHandle	A handle to a spawned future.
Supervisor	Actor supervisor
System	A manager for a per-thread distributed async runtime.
SystemRunner	Runner that keeps a System’s event loop alive until stop message is received.
WeakAddr	A weakly referenced counterpart to Addr<A>.
WeakRecipient	A weakly referenced counterpart to Recipient<M>

Enums

ActorState	Actor execution state
MailboxError	The errors that can occur during the message delivery process.
Running

Traits

Actor	Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior.
ActorContext	Actor execution context.
AsyncContext	Asynchronous execution context.
Handler	Describes how to handle messages of a specific type.
Message	Represent message that can be handled by an actor.
StreamHandler	Stream handling for Actors.
Supervised	Actors with the ability to restart after failure.

Functions

run	Starts the system and executes the supplied future.
spawn	Spawns a future on the current thread.

Type Definitions

ResponseActFuture	A specialized actor future for asynchronous message handling.
ResponseFuture	A specialized future for asynchronous message handling.

Attribute Macros

main	Marks async function to be executed by Actix system.
test	Marks async test function to be executed by Actix system.

Derive Macros

Message
MessageResponse