Xactor is a rust actors framework based on async-std

Documentation

GitHub repository
Cargo package
Minimum supported Rust version: 1.39 or later

Features

Async actors.
Actor communication in a local context.
Using Futures for asynchronous message handling.
Typed messages (No Any type). Generic messages are allowed.

Examples

```rust use xactor::*;

[message(result = "String")]

struct ToUppercase(String);

struct MyActor;

impl Actor for MyActor {}

[asynctrait::asynctrait]

impl Handler for MyActor { async fn handle(&mut self, ctx: &mut Context, msg: ToUppercase) -> String { msg.0.touppercase() } }

[xactor::main]

async fn main() -> Result<()> { // Start actor and get its address let mut addr = MyActor.start().await?;

// Send message `ToUppercase` to actor via addr
let res = addr.call(ToUppercase("lowercase".to_string())).await?;
assert_eq!(res, "LOWERCASE");
Ok(())

} ```

Performance

| |Wait for response|Send only| |--------|-----------------|---------| |Actix | 1548 ms| 14 ms| |Xactor | 930 ms| 18 ms|

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Installation

Xactor requires async-trait on userland.

With cargo add installed, run:

sh $ cargo add xactor $ cargo add async-trait

We also provide the tokio runtime instead of async-std. To use it, you need to activate runtime-tokio and disable default features.

You can edit your Cargo.toml as follows: toml xactor = { version = "x.x.x", features = ["runtime-tokio"], default-features = false }