Init spray 1.0 with a customisable ActorSystem name

Initializer.scala

package com.zeebox.starwatch

import javax.servlet.{ServletContextEvent, ServletContextListener}
import java.net.InetAddress
import akka.actor.ActorSystem
import cc.spray.SprayServletSettings
import akka.config.ConfigurationException
import akka.util.{Reflect, Switch}


class Initializer extends ServletContextListener {
  private val booted = new Switch(false)
  private[this] var actorSystem: Option[ActorSystem] = None

  private[this] def findConfigClassLoader(): ClassLoader = {
    def findCaller(get: Int ⇒ Class[_]): ClassLoader =
      Iterator.from(2 /*is the magic number, promise*/ ).map(get) dropWhile { c ⇒
        c != null &&
          (c.getName.startsWith("akka.actor.ActorSystem") ||
            c.getName.startsWith("scala.Option") ||
            c.getName.startsWith("scala.collection.Iterator") ||
            c.getName.startsWith("akka.util.Reflect"))
      } next () match {
        case null ⇒ getClass.getClassLoader
        case c    ⇒ c.getClassLoader
      }

    Option(Thread.currentThread.getContextClassLoader) orElse
      (Reflect.getCallerClass map findCaller) getOrElse
      getClass.getClassLoader
  }

  def loadConfig(loader: ClassLoader) = {
    //start by seeding some system props
    System.setProperty("env.hostname", InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostName)

    com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory.load(loader)
  }

  def contextInitialized(e: ServletContextEvent) {
    booted switchOn {
      println("Starting spray application ...")

      val ctx = e.getServletContext
      val loader = getClass.getClassLoader

      Thread.currentThread.setContextClassLoader(loader)

      val configLoader = findConfigClassLoader()
      val config = loadConfig(configLoader)
      val systemName = config.getString("zeebox.actor-system-name")
      val system = ActorSystem(systemName, config, configLoader)
      actorSystem = Some(system)

      ctx.setAttribute(Initializer.SystemAttrName, system)

      SprayServletSettings.BootClasses match {
        case Nil =>
          val e = new ConfigurationException("No boot classes configured. Please specify at least one boot class " +
            "in the spray.servlet.boot-classes config setting.")
          ctx.log(e.getMessage, e)

        case classes => {
          for (className <- classes) {
            try {
              loader
                .loadClass(className)
                .getConstructor(classOf[ActorSystem])
                .newInstance(system)
            } catch {
              case e: ClassNotFoundException =>
                ctx.log("Configured boot class " + className + " cannot be found", e)
              case e: NoSuchMethodException =>
                ctx.log("Configured boot class " + className + " does not define required constructor " +
                  "with one parameter of type `akka.actor.ActorSystem`", e)
              case e: Exception =>
                ctx.log("Could not create instance of boot class " + className, e)
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  def contextDestroyed(e: ServletContextEvent) {
    booted switchOff {
      println("Shutting down spray application ...")
      actorSystem foreach {_.shutdown()}
      actorSystem = None
    }
  }
}

object Initializer {
  private[starwatch] val SystemAttrName = "spray.servlet.system"
}