ARnActorModel

A C# Actor Model library.

I was looking for an actor model things with some requirements :

• no dependancy from another library
• coding in plain C#, with such things like ‘SendMessage’, ‘new Actor()’, ‘Become(behavior)’
• actor can change behaviors
• actor can send message
• actor can create other actors
• behaviors are dynamic
• actor can send message across servers

With ARnActor, now you can :

var sender = new BaseActor() ;
var receiver = new BaseActor() ;

and in sender code ..

receiver.SendMessage("something") ;

The library holds some useful features :

• behavior can be attached or removed from actor, (an actor can change it’s own behavior …)
• actor can send messages across servers, you just need to hold a reference to another actor on a server …
• some actor can behave as public services, or be supervised

Unit tests are included as well as some sample applications. I used the excellent OpenCover to give some tests coverage.

For a common usage, you can download ARnActorModel here in Nuget.

Current works

• more coverage
• moving to PCL/Universal/Shared model