/swift-subprocess-distributedactors

Primary LanguageSwift

swift-subprocess-distributedactors

Library to spawn/call DistributedActors implementations in child processes from an host process.

Only implement the most basic features on the Distributed Actor System.

Disclamer: this is mainly educational work to play with distributed actor system.

Pre-requirement

  • Swift Toolchain swift-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2024-05-15-a
  • Swift WASM Toolchain swift-wasm-6.0-SNAPSHOT-2024-05-01-a

Running the sample app

  1. In the root folder launch ./build_and_test.sh. It will build the plugins and launch the host.

Should output the following:

[Subprocess] Hello Swift!
[Subprocess] Bonjour Swift!
[Wasm] Hello Swift!
[Wasm] Bonjour Swift!
  • Two first lines are the host calling distributed actors in the two children processes.
  • Two last lines are the host calling distributed actors in the two WasmKit virtual machine.

Acknowledgement

Lock implementation comes from https://github.com/apple/swift-distributed-actors which comes from https://github.com/apple/swift-nio

Inspirations were taken from: