PersistentActor

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Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:60

Classic-style event-sourced actor. Subclasses override onCommand (which decides what to persist), onEvent (pure state update from the event), and optionally onRecoveryComplete. Commands are automatically stashed while persist(...) is pending, so user code can assume the state is caught up by the time its callback fires.

class AccountActor extends PersistentActor<Command, Event, State> { readonly persistenceId = ‘account-42’; initialState(): State { return { balance: 0 }; } onEvent(state: State, e: Event): State { if (e.kind === ‘deposited’) return { balance: state.balance + e.amount }; return state; } onCommand(state: State, command: Command): void { if (command.kind === ‘deposit’) { this.persist({ kind: ‘deposited’, amount: command.amount }, (s) => { this.sender.forEach(replyTo => replyTo.tell({ ok: s.balance })); }); } } }

Extends

Actor<Command>

Extended by

PersistentFSM

Type Parameters

Command

Command

Event

Event

State

State

Constructors

Constructor

new PersistentActor<Command, Event, State>(): PersistentActor<Command, Event, State>

Returns

PersistentActor<Command, Event, State>

Inherited from

Actor.constructor

Properties

persistenceId

abstract readonly persistenceId: string

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:61

Methods

compression()

compression(): CompressionConfig | undefined

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:134

Per-actor compression — overrides the plugin default for THIS actor’s snapshots. Stores that don’t compress (in-memory, SQLite, Cassandra) ignore the value. Returning undefined (the default) defers to the plugin’s resolver / configured default.

Returns

CompressionConfig | undefined

displayName()

displayName(): string

Defined in: src/Actor.ts:192

Human-readable name for this actor in log lines and in the DevTools actor tree (#891). Defaults to the full path — which is already the log source, so an actor that doesn’t override this logs exactly as it did before.

override displayName(): string { return `User(${this.entityId})`; }

Purely cosmetic. The path stays the identity everywhere that routes, correlates or aggregates — metric labels, tracing attributes, dead letters, ActorRef.toString(), every wire identifier — so a display name is free to be ambiguous, unstable, or shared between actors.

Resolved on every record, not captured once. Two consequences: keep it cheap and side-effect free, and expect it to be called before preStart (hence the optional chain — the context is attached after construction). In exchange a name may be derived from state, and it updates when that state does. Throwing, or returning anything but a non-empty string, falls back to the path and warns once: a naming hook must not be able to take a log line down with it.

ActorOptions.withDisplayName(...) outranks this, for the same reason withSupervisorStrategy(...) outranks supervisorStrategy — the spawn site is the more specific statement. It has to: every Behaviors actor is a TypedActor that inherits this default, so a method that won would silently swallow the spawn-site value for exactly the actors that have no subclass to override. For a name that only becomes known at runtime, this.context.setDisplayName(...) outranks both.

Returns

string

Inherited from

Actor.displayName

encryption()

encryption(): EncryptionConfig | undefined

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:142

Per-actor encryption — overrides the plugin default for THIS actor’s snapshots. Honoured by stores that encrypt at rest (object-storage); other stores ignore it. Used on both the write path (encrypt) and the read path (derive subkey from master to decrypt).

Returns

EncryptionConfig | undefined

eventAdapter()

eventAdapter(): EventAdapter<Event, Event> | undefined

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:118

Optional event adapter for schema evolution. When defined, every persisted event is wrapped into a { _v, _t, _e } envelope on the write path and unwrapped (with up-casting through the adapter) on the read path. Recovery is strict when an adapter is set: a raw, non-envelope event in the journal will throw MigrationError. See src/persistence/migration/.

Returns

EventAdapter<Event, Event> | undefined

initialState()

abstract initialState(): State

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:64

Default initial state when no snapshot and no events exist.

Returns

State

onCommand()

abstract onCommand(state, command): void | Promise<void>

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:86

Handle an incoming command — typically calls persist(event, afterPersist).

Parameters

state

State

command

Command

Returns

void | Promise<void>

onEvent()

abstract onEvent(state, event): State

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:83

Pure state-update function — MUST be deterministic, and is deliberately synchronous where onCommand is async.

A command decides and therefore does I/O (persist writes to the journal); an event is already a fact, and folding a fact into state is arithmetic. Anything you would want to await here — a read, a notification — is precisely what must NOT run again on recovery. Put it in the persist callback or onRecoveryComplete, neither of which replay.

Read state from the parameter, never this.state: during replay this runs detached inside replayState, before this.state has been assigned, and the DevTools time-travel panel borrows it as a free fold. A handler that reads this.state works on the persist path and fails only after a restart.

Parameters

state

State

event

Event

Returns

State

onReceive()

onReceive(message): Promise<void>

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:277

Main message handler. Receives each envelope dequeued from the mailbox. A thrown error (sync or async) is caught by the supervisor.

Parameters

message

Command

Returns

Promise<void>

Overrides

Actor.onReceive

onRecoveryComplete()

onRecoveryComplete(_state): void | Promise<void>

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:89

Called once recovery finishes, with the final replayed state.

Parameters

_state

State

Returns

void | Promise<void>

onRecoveryFailure()

onRecoveryFailure(reason): void

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:102

Called when recovery itself throws.

A notification, not a decision — recovery failure is terminal either way. The default rethrows, so the failure reaches supervision as an ActorInitializationError. An override that returns normally takes the failure as handled, and the actor is then stopped: state was never assigned and lastSequenceNr is unknown, so there is no state in which it could answer a command. Pending commands go to dead letters rather than disappearing.

Parameters

reason

Error

Returns

void

postRestart()

postRestart(_reason): void | Promise<void>

Defined in: src/Actor.ts:152

Called on the fresh instance after a restart. Default: call preStart().

Parameters

_reason

Error

Returns

void | Promise<void>

Inherited from

Actor.postRestart

postStop()

postStop(): void | Promise<void>

Defined in: src/Actor.ts:103

Called after the actor has been terminated. Children are already stopped.

Returns

void | Promise<void>

Inherited from

Actor.postStop

preRestart()

preRestart(_reason, _message?): void | Promise<void>

Defined in: src/Actor.ts:119

Called before a restart, on the instance about to be thrown away. The default calls postStop() and nothing else.

Override to release what the instance holds outside itself — a file handle, an open socket, a broker connection — or to do something other than drop the message that failed.

Stopping this actor’s children is not done here: the framework tears them down after this hook returns and waits for them before building the replacement, because postRestart re-runs preStart and a named child needs its name back. To keep the children instead, see Actor.stopChildrenOnRestart.

Parameters

_reason

Error

_message?

Command

Returns

void | Promise<void>

Inherited from

Actor.preRestart

preStart()

preStart(): Promise<void>

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:166

Called after construction and before the first message is processed.

Returns

Promise<void>

Overrides

Actor.preStart

snapshotAdapter()

snapshotAdapter(): SnapshotAdapter<State, State> | undefined

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:126

Optional snapshot adapter — same semantics as eventAdapter, but applied to the state blob persisted by the snapshot store. When a snapshot adapter is set and a stored snapshot is not an envelope, recovery throws.

Returns

SnapshotAdapter<State, State> | undefined

snapshotPolicy()

snapshotPolicy(): SnapshotPolicy<State, Event>

Defined in: src/persistence/PersistentActor.ts:105

Snapshot policy — return true to snapshot the current state.

Returns

SnapshotPolicy<State, Event>

stopChildrenOnRestart()

stopChildrenOnRestart(): boolean

Defined in: src/Actor.ts:149

Whether a restart tears this actor’s children down before rebuilding it. Default: true.

A restart replaces the Actor instance while the cell — and therefore the child map — survives. Keeping the children was the old behaviour and it made an ordinary pattern impossible: postRestart re-runs preStart, so an actor that spawns a named child there hit Child name … is not unique on its first restart and never recovered (#634).

Override to false when the children are expensive to rebuild, hold state the parent cannot restore, or are supervised independently — a connection pool, say. They then outlive the restart exactly as before, and it is on you to make preStart idempotent — by adopting the survivor from the cell, this.child = this.context.child('name').toNullable() ?? this.context.spawn(Child, 'name'), or with context.spawnAnonymous. An instance field cannot do it: preStart runs on a fresh instance after every restart, so this.child ??= … is always unset and re-spawns into the name the surviving child still holds, which fails the spawn and restarts the actor again.

This is a separate hook rather than a preRestart override because the teardown has to be awaited: the new instance cannot be built until the old children are actually gone, and preRestart has no way to tell the cell that it started something worth waiting for.