Question: Dynamic routees in group router about protoactor-go HOT 2 CLOSED

The easiest way to do what you want right now, would be to create an actor that talks to consul, to find the PID's for each routee.

e.g.

Sender -> Consul Proxy Actor -> Routee

That way, when you send a message, send it to the consul proxy actor, this actor could then check what routees are available, and pick one and send the message forward to that actor.

pseudo code

func (*ProxyActor) Receive(context actor.Context) {
   // Fetch consul info via consul Go RPC API.
   // Pick one address from the result
   // create a PID for the above address
   pid.Tell(context.Message()) 
}

I am currently investigating what would be the best way forward to create a cluster system for GAM.
I am leaning towards using MemberList from Hashicorp, it is the same code that actually powers Consul.
That would allow GAM systems to form a cluster w/o having Consul installed.

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Thank you for quick reply, Proxy Actor sounds like go idea. It doesn't need to fetch consul data directly but it can be just notified from outside as well.

About MemberList if it is cover by opened API why not. But It should be possible to explicitly use already existing service catalog either consul or etcd. Since there are many subject using already such service in heterogeneous environments including me :) wink, wink

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