Send message to non-child/parent actors

[saltzm]

Hi! It seems not possible to send a message from one actor to another one that is not a child/parent. It's not documented and it's forbidden in code here.

Imagine A is the parent of B and C, and B needs to send a message to C. Is that possible?

Is sending a message to a non-child/parent actor an antipattern? The workaround I can think of is to send a message back up to the common parent, and then have it forward it back down - in this case B would send a message to A, and then A would redirect it to C.

[Andarist]

You can fairly easy implement address sharing to enable direct communication:
https://codesandbox.io/s/dank-fog-tr4yf?file=/src/index.js

[saltzm]

Interesting, thanks for the example. I was doing something wrong and moved too quickly before posting :) Going to keep playing with my own example and see if I can get it working.