Provide a way to change actor Kind before connecting to a cluster

[volkanalkilic]

I would like to request a feature that allows changing actor Kind before connecting to the cluster.

In some scenarios, an application can be a member of the cluster for different tasks. For example, let's say I have an edge application consisting of the same actors that collect data from devices in the network based on the parameters I send. When I install this application on different networks, each instance becomes a completely different application, not a replica.

In such cases, if there was a way to change the actor Kind before connecting to the cluster, I could parse the instances and send the parameters to the correct member.

Dirty solution I'm using right now:

• I converted public const string Kind in Proto.Cluster.CodeGen code template to public static string Kind.
• I added a suffix to the Kind variable of all actors using reflection before connecting to the cluster.

public static void UpdateKindsWithSuffix(string suffix) {
         var assembly = typeof(FieldbusWorkerActor).Assembly;
         var messageTypes = assembly.GetTypes().Where(t => t.Namespace == "Proxus.Shared.Messages");
         foreach (var messageType in messageTypes) {
             var kindField = messageType.GetField("Kind", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static);
             if (kindField != null) {
                 var kindValue = (string) kindField.GetValue(null);
                 kindValue += "_" + suffix;
                 kindField.SetValue(null, kindValue);
             }
         }
     }

• And finally:
  Cluster().RequestAsync<object>(request.DeviceID,"ACTOR-KIND-WITH-SUFFIX",request, CancellationToken.None);