Rotor

rotor is event loop friendly C++ actor micro framework.

features

• minimalistic loop agnostic core
• erlang-like hierarchical supervisors, see
• various event loops supported (wx, boost-asio, ev) or planned (uv, gtk, etc.)
• asynchornous message passing interface
• request-response messaging with cancellation capabilities, see
• MPMC (multiple producers mupltiple consumers) messaging, aka pub-sub
• cross-platform (windows, macosx, linux)
• inspired by The Reactive Manifesto and sobjectizer

license

MIT

documentation

Please read tutorial, design principles and manual here

Changelog

0.10 (09-Nov-2020)

• [improvement/breaking] Generic timers interface
• [improvement] Request cancellation support
• [improvement] added make_response methods when message should be created, but send later delayed
• [improvement] more debug information in message delivery plugin
• [documentation] Integration with event loops
• [documentation] Requests cancellation and timers are demonstrated in the Advanced Examples section
• [example] examples/boost-asio/ping-pong-timer.cpp (new)
• [example] examples/boost-asio/beast-scrapper.cpp (updated)
• [bugfix] avoid double configuration of a plugin in certain cases when interacting with resources plugin
• [bugfix] more correct cmake installation (thanks to Jorge López Tello, @LtdJorge)

0.09 (03-Oct-2020)

• the dedicated article with highlights: en and ru
• [improvement] rewritten whole documentation
• [improvement/breaking] plugin system where introduced for actors instead of behaviors
• [improvement] actor_config_t was introduced, which now holds pointer to supervisor, init and shutdown timeouts
• [improvement] builder pattern was introduced to simplify actors construction
• [breaking] supervisor_config_t was changed (inherited from actor_config_t)
• [breaking] actor_base_t and supervisor_t constructors has changed - now appropriate config is taken as single parameter. All descendant classes should be changed
• [breaking] if a custom config type is used for actors/supervisors, they should define config_t inside the class, and templated config_builder_t.
• [breaking] supervisor in actor is now accessibe via pointer instead of refence
• [bugfix] supervisor_ev_t not always correctly released EV-resources, which lead to leak
• [bugfix] actor_base_t can be shutted down properly even if it did not started yet

0.08 (12-Apr-2020)

• [bugfix] message's arguments are more correctly forwarded
• [bugfix] actor's arguments are more correctly forwarded in actor's creation inrotor::supervisor_t and rotor::asio::supervisor_asio_t
• [bugfix] rotor::asio::forwarder_t now more correctly dispatches boost::asio events to actor methods; e.g. it works correctly now with async_accept method of socket_acceptor

0.07 (02-Apr-2020)

• [improvement] more modern cmake usage

0.06 (09-Nov-2019)

• [improvement] registy actor was added to allow via name/address runtime matching do services discovery
• [improvement, breaking] minor changes in supervisor behavior: now it is considered initialied when all its children confirmed initialization
• [improvement] supervisor_policy_t was introduced to control supervisor behavior on a child-actor startup failure
• [example] examples/ev/pong-registry.cpp how to use registry
• [doc] patterns/Registry was added

0.05 (22-Sep-2019)

• [improvement] response can be inherited from rotor::arc_base, to allow forwarding requests without copying it (i.e. just intrusive pointer is created)
• [example] examples/boost-asio/beast-scrapper.cpp has been added; it demonstrates an app with pool of actor workers with request-response forwarding

0.04 (14-Sep-2019)

• [improvement] the request-response approach is integrated to support basic reliable messaging: response notification failure will be delivered, if the expected response will not arrive in-time
• [improvement] lambda subscribiers are supported
• [improvement] actor behavior has been introduced to offload actor's interface
• [breaking] supervisor is constructed with help of supervisor_config_t, which contains shutdown timeout value
• [breaking] supervisor does not spawns timeout timer for overall shutdown procedure, instead per-child timers are spawned. The root supervisor the same way monitors child-supervisor shut down
• [breaking] supervisor create_actor method now takes child max init time value. If it does not confirm, the child actor will be asked for shut down.
• [breaking] shutdown request sent to an child actor now timeout-tracked by supervisor. The message type has changed to message::shutdown_request_t
• [breaking] init request sent to an child actor now timeout-tracked by supervisor. The message type has changed to message::init_request_t
• [breaking] actor's state request message type now message::state_request_t, which follows the generic request/response pattern. The response type is now message::state_response_t.
• [breaking] {asio, ev, ws} supervisor configs are renamed to have corresponding suffix.

0.03 (25-Aug-2019)

• [improvement] locality notion was introduced, which led to possibilty to build superving trees, see blog-cpp-supervisors
• [breaking] the outbound field in rotor::supervisor_t was renamed just to queue
• [breaking] rotor::address_t now contains const void* locality
• [breaking] rotor::asio::supervisor_config_t now contains std::shared_ptr to strand, instead of creating private strand for each supervisor
• [bugfix] redundant do_start() method in rotor::supervisor_t was removed, since supervisor now is able to start self after compliting initialization.
• [bugfix] rotor::supervisor_t sends initialize_actor_t to self to advance own state to INITIALIZED via common actor mechanism, instead of changeing state directly on early initialization phase (do_initialize)
• [bugfix] rotor::asio::forwarder_t now more correctly dispatches boost::asio events to actor methods
• [bugfix] rotor::ev::supervisor_ev_t properly handles refcounter

0.02 (04-Aug-2019)

• Added libev support

0.01 (24-Jul-2019)

Initial version