actors 0.11.0

Actors Model library for Dart. It is a thin wrapper around Dart's `Isolate` that makes them much easier to use.

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0.11.0

• fixed handling of initialization errors. Introduced ActorInitializationException to represent such cases.
• improved Actor initialization performance.

0.10.0

• added toSendable to Actor so that the Actor can be sent to another Actor via its Sendable object.
• added method sendToAll to ActorGroup.
• added create named constructor to Actor and ActorGroup to allow initializing Handler only on Isolate.

0.9.0

• require Dart SDK 3.0+.
• added init method to Handler to allow for the initialization of non-sendable state.

0.8.4

• require Dart SDK 2.16.
• docs improvements.

0.8.3

• added close method to Handler to facilitate resource management.

0.8.2

• apply workaround to remove Dart bogus warning, see https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/48090.

0.8.1

• upgraded to Dart 2.15.0 to use updated Isolate API.

0.8.0

• set debug name for Isolate backing an Actor (starts with Actor-0, then Actor-1 and so on).
• completed separation of actors API from actual implementation with Isolate. In the future, this may allow implementing actors with web workers.

0.7.0

• Null-safety stable relese.

0.7.0-nullsafety.1

This version should only be used if you're migrating to Dart with null-safety.

• Allow Actors to send and return nullable types.

0.7.0-nullsafety.0

This version should only be used if you're migrating to Dart with null-safety.

• Enabled null-safety.

0.6.1

• Propagate stacktrace to caller on Exception inside an Actor.

0.6.0

• Stopped exposing Isolate from Actor. This should allow a web implementation in the future.
• Convert remote Error into a RemoteErrorException to be able to send it back to caller.
• Fixed close() method so that Actors actually drop all subscriptions and allow the system to die when all Actors are closed.

0.5.0

• Created StreamActor to support Actors that return Streams.
• Removed AllHandleWithNAcks GroupStrategy.
• Created MultiHandler GroupStrategy, better implementation and more flexible than AllHandleWithNAcks.
• Allow external implementations of GroupStrategy to be used.
• Deprecated 'isolate' field in Actor. Will remove in the next version to allow web implementation.

0.4.0

• Allow all Messenger subtypes to be created from a function.
• Added support for GroupStrategy, so ActorGroup can have different ways to send messages to actors.
• Created RoundRobinGroupStrategy.
• Created AllHandleWithNAcks.
• All Messenger sub-types are now closeable.
• Changed return type of Messenger.send from Future to FutureOr.

0.3.0

• Added ActorGroup.
• Added LocalMessenger.

0.2.0

• Lighter message representation for smaller overhead.

0.1.0

• Initial version, created by Stagehand.
• Implemented basic functionaliy of an Actor.