Kompact 0.8.0

Breaking Changes

• Local actor communication (i.e., via ActorRef) is now statically typed.
• Local actor communication does not include implicit sender references anymore.

Other Changes

• A new macro match_deser! that makes handling network messages more convenient.
• Support for eager (on the sending actor) message serialisation via the tell_ser method on ActorPath.
• Component macros now generate implementations for ProvideRef and RequireRef traits, which allow easier component connection, for example via biconnect_components or via connect_to_provided/connect_to_required.
• Support for a narrower version of ActorRef called a Recipient, which auto-boxes messages into the type expected by the receiving actor.
• A wait_expect method on Future to avoid the wait_timeout -> expect -> expect sequence during actor registration.
• Support for running components on dedicated threads, instead of the shared threadpool. Dedicated component can optionally be pinned to CPU cores with the thread_pinning feature.
• A new trait NetworkActor that can be used to conveniently implement actors that handle the same set of messages from remote and local source (i.e., via ActorRef or ActorPath).
• ComponentContext now has a method suicide(), allowing it to shut itself down.