Ractor + Tower

[EnvOut]

I'm currently exploring options for integrating Ractor with Tower. I'm particularly interested in moving requests to a specific actor.
Could you please provide information or guidance on how this integration can be achieved?

[slawlor]

I'm currently exploring options for integrating Ractor with Tower. I'm particularly interested in moving requests to a specific actor.
Could you please provide information or guidance on how this integration can be achieved?

What do you expect to get out of this kind of integration? Do you have a design in mind? Ractor could be the underlying request runtime but if you want it as a middleware then I would suggest probably wrapping a factory.

Something like

struct MyMiddleware {
factory: ActorRef<Message,...>
}

And you would implement the tower traits I guess which then send rpcs to the factor workers. Something like that would make sense, and would let you implement back pressure on your middleware.

That is assuming I understand how Tower works, I don't personally have any experience with it yet