ARnActorModel

A C# Actor Model library.

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

• no dependancy from another library
• coding in plain C#, with such things like 'SendMessage', 'new Actor()', 'Become(behavior)'
• actor can change their own behaviors
• actor can send messages
• actor can create other actors
• behaviors are dynamic
• actor can send messages 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 (an IActor interface) to another actor on a server ...
• some actors can behave as public services, or be supervised
• ARnActorModel could also be used as a basis for active object, defining an object and casting an async interface around it as a facility.
• You need VS2019 to compile ARnActorModel

Unit tests are included as well as some sample applications. I used the excellent OpenCover to give some tests coverage and it's checked with AppVeyor for continuous integration.

Supported Framework

• .Net 4.6 (Actor.Base, Actor.Util, Actor.Server, Actor.Service)
• Netcore 2.1 (Actor.Base, Actor.Util)
• Netstandard 2.0 (Actor.Base, Actor.Util)

Current works

• more coverage (target 90%)
• focus on future vs actor (They now are basically the same object, with different interfaces)
• Improved Message Loop