Using Behaviors

Using Behaviors

####Behaviors

Once created, an actor at message reception can :

• send a message to other actors he knows about
• create other actors
• change its own behavior

To change an actor behavior, you could :

• use the Become statement, all previous behaviors are cleared and replace by the new one
• use the AddBehavior statement, adding a new behavior to the list of existing behaviors.

Become statement

Here a small sample of usage for the Become statement ...

Become(new ActionBehavior());

It means : "this actor will now answer to Action Message".

AddBehavior statement

And here an example for AddBehavior statement ...

AddBehavior(new ConsoleBehavior<string>()); 
AddBehavior(new ConsoleStringListbehavior()); 
AddBehavior(new ConsoleDictionaryBehavior()); 
AddBehavior(new ConsoleBehavior<int>()); 

this one comes from the ActorConsole.