using actix for state management

[arthurgeek]

the book mentions one could use actix for state management, but doesn't provide a full example.

what is the best way to send dart messages (from get_dart_signal_receiver().recv()) to actors? so far I'm using an approach where my main function start my actors, and then I spawn a tokio function to listen to dart signals, and then call the actor when a message is received. It works, but I was wondering if there's any other ways I'm missing.

[temeddix]

The best way would be just spawning a task that listens to Dart signals, and pass messages to the actor(Can be non-Protobuf struct). I think you're doing everything the right way.

By the way, it looks like actix doesn't really fit well with async system as its Handler trait requires its handler method to have a signature of fn handler(...), which is not async. After a lot of research, I've found out that a crate called messages which provides actors just like actix really does a good job in the async logic. I'm thinking about recommending this one over actix from the docs. What do you think?