[Info requested] What is the purpose of CancellationToken in reliable actors

[murdockcrc]

Hi,

In the sample app's Actor sample, you can find this line: public async Task StartProcessingAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)

The token is never used in the method though.

Also, upon creating the actor's proxy, I notice the parameter passed is CancellationToke.None.

Can you please comment on the purpose of cancellation tokens in the context of Reliable Actors?

[kbulte]

Hi,

When you create a new Actor the generated code passes CancellationToken in the actor methods but all the Azure samples about actors don't use CancellationToken.

Can someone explain this please.

[raunakpandya]

Basically the samples aren’t just using it as these are just 'samples' :) . However in your own implementation of these actor methods, you may want to use them. All actor methods can be implemented in an async way and you can signal the token from the client and your method on server will have the token signaled.