Play and call in a single actor

[pboling]

Does it make sense? Can it be done? Is anyone doing this? It seems like this is what I would want to use, because I want to dynamically declare one of the plays based on inputs like;

# not working pseudo code
class Streamer < Actor
  input :provider

  play "Streaming::Provider::#{provider.classify}".constantize
end

The input is available from call, of course, but there are zero examples anywhere I can find of an Actor using both the call and the play patterns.

[sunny]

Interesting use case! In this simple example I would do the following:

class Streamer < Actor
  input :provider

  def call
    "Streaming::Provider::#{provider.classify}".constantize.call
  end
end

If you want to be able to use play and pass the inputs and the result from one actor to the other, however, you can do something like this instead, by reusing the result:

class Streamer < Actor
  input :provider

  play :call_provider

  private

  def call_provider
    "Streaming::Provider::#{provider.classify}".constantize.call(result)
  end
end