ICanWatch.Watch Method

ICanWatchWatch Method

Monitors the specified actor for termination. When the subject terminates the instance watching will receive a Terminated message.

Remarks

Note that if the Terminated message isn't handled by the actor, by default the actor will crash by throwing a DeathPactException. To change the default behavior, override Unhandled(Object).

Namespace: Akka.Actor
Assembly: Akka (in Akka.dll) Version: 1.2.3.129 (1.2.3.129)

Syntax

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IActorRef Watch(
	IActorRef subject
)

abstract Watch : 
        subject : IActorRef -> IActorRef

Parameters

subject: Type: Akka.ActorIActorRef
The actor to monitor for termination.

Return Value

Type: IActorRef
Returns the provided subject

Reference

ICanWatch Interface

Akka.Actor Namespace