Akka. Group, aggregate for some time and release the result

Question

I have endless streams of elements that I want to group by id and aggregate groups, let them say 2 seconds and then send them downstream. Here is code that doesn't work, but can better explain what I want:

  Source
    .tick(0 second, 50 millis, () => if (Random.nextBoolean) (1, s"A") else (2, s"B"))
    .map { f => f() }
    .groupBy(10, _._1)
    // how to aggregate grouped elements here for two seconds?
    .scan(Seq[String]()) { (x, y) => x ++ Seq(y._2) }
    .to(Sink.foreach(println))

And the desired result should look like this:

Seq(A, A, A, A, A)
Seq(B, B, B)
Seq(A, A)
Seq(B, B, B, B, B)
// and so on

How can I achieve this functionality with threads?

Answer 1

You need groupedWithinin your thread :)

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4.17/scala/stream/stages-overview.html#groupedwithin