I am fairly new to Scala and I'm working on an application (library) which is a client to a 3rd-party service (I'm not able to modify the server side and it uses custom binary protocol). I use Netty for networking.
I want to design an API which should allow users to:
- Send requests to the server
- Send requests to the server and get the response asynchronously
- Subscribe to events triggered by the server (having multiple asynchronous event handlers which should be able to send requests as well)
I am not sure how should I design it. Exploring Scala, I stumble upon a bunch of information about Actor model, but I am not sure if it can be applied there and if it can, how.
I'd like to get some recommendations on the way I should take.