Communicate from spawned to parent on completion

[real bobcat]

What is the best way to send info/messages back to the parent actor from a spawned actor?

Thanks!!

[crimson summit]

I'm assuming it's sendParent, although I never use it. 😁 https://stately.ai/docs/actions#send-parent-action

[real bobcat]

If I was specifically trying to let the parent machine know that the spawned actor has entered a final state? This seems fairly simple if using an invoked ator, but not clear with a spawned actor

[frank saddle]

you could probably use onDone.actions to sendParent

iirc getSnapshot() has an output property to get the value of the output as well

[topaz raven]

You can spawn it with spawn(logic, { syncSnapshot: true })

[real bobcat]

onDone in the child actor/machine? It looks like onDone on the parent only works if the actor is spawned, not invoked

[topaz raven]

You will get an event from the child actor as { type: 'xstate.done.actor.ACTOR_ID' } (replace ACTOR_ID with the ID you gave the actor)

[real bobcat]

in the parent onDone you mean? interesting, doesn't seem to be firing.... Would a brief code example be too much to ask for (meant seriously, not sarcastically - code samples can be a lot of work)