go-actor

Changes:

• go version bump to v1.22
• simplify mailbox capacity options (#72)

Braking changes:

• simplify mailbox capacity options (#72) - was a breaking change.
  OptMinCapacity and OptMailbox where removed in favor of single option for setting capacity OptCapacity.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vladopajic/go-actor/compare/v0.8.4...v0.9.0

Changes:

• Add new option OptOnStartCombined(func (Context)) that can be used as option for combined actor

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vladopajic/go-actor/compare/v0.8.3...v0.8.4

Changes:

• Mailbox receiveC and sendC are created with small buffer to allow better asynchronicity
• Mailbox worker writes directly to receiveC if there is space in buffer
• Panic will be raised when Mailbox.Send(...) is called for non-running mailbox

Changes:

• add new option OptStopAfterReceivingAll() that will stop mailbox only after all messages have been received.

Changes:

• add new option OptOnStopCombined(func ()) that can be used as option for combined actor

Changes:

• Combine function now returns builder that builds combined actor
• New options is added OptStopTogether that stops all combined actors when any actor stops

License changed to permissive license (MIT).

• FanOut changed to accept receive channel
• interfaces StartableWorker and StoppableWorker are now exported
• OnStart and OnStop callbacks order execution changed: first these are executed from worker (if any), then from options (if any)
• test improvements (more test, more coverage)
• repo CI now executes go-test-coverage action

• Composed Mailbox interface using MailboxSender and MailboxReceiver interfaces
• FanOut utility refactored to use new MailboxSender and MailboxReceiver interfaces
• Added NewMailboxes constructor for creating multiple mailboxes

• Worker can optionally implement OnStart(Context) and OnStop() methods which will have same effect as if those are provided via OptOnStart and OptOnStop respectively

• OnStart now receives Context as first argument
• Context is ended before OnStop callback is invoked

Old releases with version v1.x.x were retracted. This library will follow v0.x.x versioning going forward until it reaches stable interface.

• Mailbox use faster queue implementation

• Actor will end Context on WorkerEnd signal
• Add actor.Idle
• Add Mailbox implementation with native channels
• Drop StartAll and StopAll functions