akkadotnet/akka.net

@morioma i would use the actor selection to get the remote actor ref once on example on Actor.PreStart() and watch for the termination of the remote actor, when the remote actor dies, you can introduce a behavior like Reconnecting/ Registering and schedule the reconnect within some interval like 5secs on example.

here is some code which comes out of my mind now:

        protected override void PreStart()
        {

            Context.Become(Registering());
            Self.Tell(new LookupForServiceProvider());//LookupForService provider is just a simple message to tell yourself to start the actor selection

        }

private UntypedReceive Registering()
        {
            return message =>
            {
                if (message is RegisteredToServiceProvider)
                {
                          var registered = (RegisteredToServiceProvider) message;
                    Console.WriteLine("Registered to the service provider, Path: {0}",registered.ServiceProviderRef.Path);

                     //do some useful things here, mb switch to a different behavior where you can operate normaly
                      Context.Watch(registered.ServiceProviderRef);
                    Context.Become(Registered(registered.ServiceProviderRef));
                 }
                  else if (message is UnableToRegister)
                {
                    // we are not able to connect now, try reconnect within some time, and also stay into the same behavior.
                    Context.System.Scheduler.ScheduleTellOnce(_lookupTimeout,Self, new LookupForServiceProvider(), Self);
                }
                 else if (message is LookupForServiceProvider)
                {
                    var self = Context.Self;
                    try
                    {
                        Context.ActorSelection(sericeProviderPath)
                            .ResolveOne(_lookupTimeout)
                            .ContinueWith<IServiceLookupResult>(x =>
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    var serviceProvider = x.Result;
                                    return new RegisteredToServiceProvider(serviceProvider);

                                }
                                catch (AggregateException ex)
                                {
                                    return new UnableToRegister();
                                }
                            }).PipeTo(self);
                    }
                    catch (Exception)
                    {
                        Self.Tell(new UnableToRegister());
                    }
                }
        }
}

private UntypedReceive Registered(IActorRef serviceProvider)
        {
            return message =>
            {
                  if (message is Terminated)
                {
                    var terminated = (Terminated)message;
                    if (terminated.ActorRef.Equals(serviceProvider))
                    {

                        Context.Become(Registering());
                        Self.Tell(new LookupForServiceProvider());
                        Console.WriteLine("Message Service provider is down, auto reconnect in {0} secs.", _lookupTimeout.TotalSeconds);
                    }
               }