Get existing or create new akka actor

Question

I\'m trying to get an existing ActorRef with ActorFor or create a new one if it does not exists. I have the following code but it doesn\'t seem to work as expected. .isTermi

Answer 1

Change your lookup to be:

system.actorFor("/user/" + name)

You don't need the "akka://System" part if this is a local actor you are looking up. This is assuming that this actor was already started up elsewhere in your code though. If not it won't work.