Composing trait behavior in Scala in an Akka receive method

Question

Consider these two traits:

trait Poked extends Actor {
  override def receive = {
    case Poke(port, x) => ReceivePoke(port, x)
  }

  def ReceivePoke(po         


        

Answer 1

You can use empty Receive in base actor class and chain receives in their definitions. Sample for Akka 2.0-M2:

import akka.actor.Actor
import akka.actor.Props
import akka.event.Logging
import akka.actor.ActorSystem

class Logger extends Actor {
  val log = Logging(context.system, this)

  override def receive = new Receive {
    def apply(any: Any) = {}
    def isDefinedAt(any: Any) = false
  }
}

trait Errors extends Logger {
  override def receive = super.receive orElse {
    case "error" => log.info("received error")
  }
}

trait Warns extends Logger {
  override def receive = super.receive orElse {
    case "warn" => log.info("received warn")
  }
}

object Main extends App {
  val system = ActorSystem("mysystem")
  val actor = system.actorOf(Props(new Logger with Errors with Warns), name = "logger")
  actor ! "error"
  actor ! "warn"
}