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How to cancel an Akka Akker?

I have an acric actor (worker) who receives a request and answers it. Processing the request may take 3-5 minutes. Currently used by Caller (also an actor)! and expectation for future.get, however, if necessary, the design of the Caller player can be changed. Also, I am currently using the EventDriven dispatcher.

How can I cancel (initiate a user) request processing so that the working actor is released and returns to the ready state to receive new requests? I was hoping for a method similar to the java.util.concurrent.Future undo method, but could not find in Akka 1.1.3

Edit:

We tried to get the behavior we are looking for with completeWithException:

object Cancel {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val actor = Actor.actorOf[CancelActor].start
    EventHandler.info(this, "Getting future")
    val future = (actor ? "request").onComplete(x => EventHandler.info(this, "Completed!! " + x.get))
    Thread.sleep(500L)
    EventHandler.info(this, "Cancelling")
    future.completeWithException(new Exception("cancel"))
    EventHandler.info(this, "Future is " + future.get)
  }
}

class CancelActor extends Actor {
  def receive = {
    case "request" =>
      EventHandler.info(this, "start")
      (1 to 5).foreach(x => {
        EventHandler.info(this, "I am a long running process")
        Thread.sleep(200L)
      })
      self reply "response"
      EventHandler.info(this, "stop")
  }
}

But this did not stop the lengthy process.

    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [main] [Cancel$] Getting future
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] start
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [main] [Cancel$] Cancelling
    [ERROR]   [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-7] [ActorCompletableFuture] 
    java.lang.Exception: cancel
        at kozo.experimental.Cancel$.main(Cancel.scala:15)
...

    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:46 PM] [akka:event-driven:dispatcher:global-2] [CancelActor] stop

In contrast, consider the behavior of java.util.concurrent.Future:

object Cancel2 {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val executor: ExecutorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()
    EventHandler.info(this, "Getting future")
    val future = executor.submit(new Runnable {
      def run() {
        EventHandler.info(this, "start")
        (1 to 5).foreach(x => {
          EventHandler.info(this, "I am a long running process")
          Thread.sleep(200L)
        })
      }
    })
    Thread.sleep(500L)
    EventHandler.info(this, "Cancelling")
    future.cancel(true)
    EventHandler.info(this, "Future is " + future.get)
  }
}


    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:48 PM] [main] [Cancel2$] Getting future
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:48 PM] [pool-1-thread-1] [anon$1] start
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:48 PM] [pool-1-thread-1] [anon$1] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:48 PM] [pool-1-thread-1] [anon$1] I am a long running process
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:48 PM] [pool-1-thread-1] [anon$1] I am a long running process
    Exception in thread "main" java.util.concurrent.CancellationException
...
    [INFO]    [9/16/11 1:48 PM] [main] [Cancel2$] Cancelling
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class MyActor extends Actor {
  def receive = {
    case msg =>
      while(!self.senderFuture.get.isCompleted) {
        performWork(msg)
      }
      self reply result
  }
  ...
}

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-VM, AtomicBoolean Job , , , .

actor ! Job(..., someAtomicBoolean)

class MyActor extends Actor {
  def receive = {
    case Job(..., cancelPlease) =>
      while(cancelPlease.get == false) {
        performWork
      }
      self reply result
  }
}
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