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有时需要设定将来发生的事情，这时该怎么办? ActorSystem 就能搞定一切! 在那儿你能找到 scheduler 方法，它返回一个 akka.actor.Scheduler 实例, 这个实例在每个Actor系统里是唯一的，用来在内部指定一段时间后发生的行为。
请注意定时任务是使用 ActorSystem 的 MessageDispatcher 执行的.
你可以计划向actor发送消息或执行任务 (函数或Runnable). 你会得到一个 Cancellable 类型的返回值，你可以调用 cancel 来取消定时操作的执行。
警告
Akka中使用的
Scheduler的默认实现是基于根据一个固定的时间表清空的工作桶。它不是在确切的时间执行任务，而是在每个时间刻度，它将运行 （结束） 到期的一切。可以通过akka.scheduler.tick-duration配置属性修改默认Scheduler的时间精度。
import akka.actor.Actor
import akka.actor.Props
import scala.concurrent.duration._
//Use the system's dispatcher as ExecutionContext
import system.dispatcher
//Schedules to send the "foo"-message to the testActor after 50ms
system.scheduler.scheduleOnce(50 milliseconds, testActor, "foo")
//Schedules a function to be executed (send a message to the testActor) after 50ms
system.scheduler.scheduleOnce(50 milliseconds) {
testActor ! System.currentTimeMillis
}
val Tick = "tick"
class TickActor extends Actor {
def receive = {
case Tick => //Do something
}
}
val tickActor = system.actorOf(Props(classOf[TickActor], this))
//Use system's dispatcher as ExecutionContext
import system.dispatcher
//This will schedule to send the Tick-message
//to the tickActor after 0ms repeating every 50ms
val cancellable =
system.scheduler.schedule(0 milliseconds,
50 milliseconds,
tickActor,
Tick)
//This cancels further Ticks to be sent
cancellable.cancel()
警告
如果你计划函数或Runnable实例时应该多加小心，不要关闭(闭合包含)不稳定的引用。在实践中这意味着在Actor实例中，不要在闭包中使用
this，不直接访问sender()并且不要直接调用actor实例的方法。如果你需要安排一个调用，则安排一个发往self的消息 （包含必需的参数），然后在收到消息时再调用方法。
akka.actor.ActorSystem/**
* Light-weight scheduler for running asynchronous tasks after some deadline
* in the future. Not terribly precise but cheap.
*/
def scheduler: Scheduler
实际的调度程序实现是在 ActorSystem 启动时反射加载的，这意味着通过使用 akka.scheduler.implementation 配置属性它可能提供一个的不同实现。引用的类必须实现以下接口：
/**
* An Akka scheduler service. This one needs one special behavior: if
* Closeable, it MUST execute all outstanding tasks upon .close() in order
* to properly shutdown all dispatchers.
*
* Furthermore, this timer service MUST throw IllegalStateException if it
* cannot schedule a task. Once scheduled, the task MUST be executed. If
* executed upon close(), the task may execute before its timeout.
*
* Scheduler implementation are loaded reflectively at ActorSystem start-up
* with the following constructor arguments:
* 1) the system’s com.typesafe.config.Config (from system.settings.config)
* 2) a akka.event.LoggingAdapter
* 3) a java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory
*/
trait Scheduler {
/**
* Schedules a message to be sent repeatedly with an initial delay and
* frequency. E.g. if you would like a message to be sent immediately and
* thereafter every 500ms you would set delay=Duration.Zero and
* interval=Duration(500, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
*
* Java & Scala API
*/
final def schedule(
initialDelay: FiniteDuration,
interval: FiniteDuration,
receiver: ActorRef,
message: Any)(implicit executor: ExecutionContext,
sender: ActorRef = Actor.noSender): Cancellable =
schedule(initialDelay, interval, new Runnable {
def run = {
receiver ! message
if (receiver.isTerminated)
throw new SchedulerException("timer active for terminated actor")
}
})
/**
* Schedules a function to be run repeatedly with an initial delay and a
* frequency. E.g. if you would like the function to be run after 2 seconds
* and thereafter every 100ms you would set delay = Duration(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
* and interval = Duration(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
*
* Scala API
*/
final def schedule(
initialDelay: FiniteDuration,
interval: FiniteDuration)(f: ⇒ Unit)(
implicit executor: ExecutionContext): Cancellable =
schedule(initialDelay, interval, new Runnable { override def run = f })
/**
* Schedules a function to be run repeatedly with an initial delay and
* a frequency. E.g. if you would like the function to be run after 2
* seconds and thereafter every 100ms you would set delay = Duration(2,
* TimeUnit.SECONDS) and interval = Duration(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
*
* Java API
*/
def schedule(
initialDelay: FiniteDuration,
interval: FiniteDuration,
runnable: Runnable)(implicit executor: ExecutionContext): Cancellable
/**
* Schedules a message to be sent once with a delay, i.e. a time period that has
* to pass before the message is sent.
*
* Java & Scala API
*/
final def scheduleOnce(
delay: FiniteDuration,
receiver: ActorRef,
message: Any)(implicit executor: ExecutionContext,
sender: ActorRef = Actor.noSender): Cancellable =
scheduleOnce(delay, new Runnable {
override def run = receiver ! message
})
/**
* Schedules a function to be run once with a delay, i.e. a time period that has
* to pass before the function is run.
*
* Scala API
*/
final def scheduleOnce(delay: FiniteDuration)(f: ⇒ Unit)(
implicit executor: ExecutionContext): Cancellable =
scheduleOnce(delay, new Runnable { override def run = f })
/**
* Schedules a Runnable to be run once with a delay, i.e. a time period that
* has to pass before the runnable is executed.
*
* Java & Scala API
*/
def scheduleOnce(
delay: FiniteDuration,
runnable: Runnable)(implicit executor: ExecutionContext): Cancellable
/**
* The maximum supported task frequency of this scheduler, i.e. the inverse
* of the minimum time interval between executions of a recurring task, in Hz.
*/
def maxFrequency: Double
}
它使你可以 取消 计划执行的任务。
警告 它不会中止已经启动的任务的执行。
调度的任务会返回一个 Cancellable （或抛出IllegalStateException时，如果在调度器关闭后尝试使用）。这允许你取消原定执行的东西。
警告
这不会中止已经开始执行的任务。检查
cancel的返回值以检测已计划的任务是被取消，还是（最终）被运行。
/**
* Signifies something that can be cancelled
* There is no strict guarantee that the implementation is thread-safe,
* but it should be good practice to make it so.
*/
trait Cancellable {
/**
* Cancels this Cancellable and returns true if that was successful.
* If this cancellable was (concurrently) cancelled already, then this method
* will return false although isCancelled will return true.
*
* Java & Scala API
*/
def cancel(): Boolean
/**
* Returns true if and only if this Cancellable has been successfully cancelled
*
* Java & Scala API
*/
def isCancelled: Boolean
}