Hi, when I use this plugin my system is unable to find the plugin, which leads to the inmmemory/local storage default option always being used. When debugging and looking at the actors in the system the JournalPluginId = null, and Journal = akka/myActorsystem/../...../journal.inmemm#13213

Do the use of the plugin need to be specified explicitly somewhere?
In the getakka documentation they specify which plugin is used for journal:
journal {
# Absolute path to the journal plugin configuration entry used by
# persistent actor or view by default.
# Persistent actor or view can override journalPluginId method
# in order to rely on a different journal plugin.
plugin = "akka.persistence.journal.inmem"

Does this azure plugin require something similar?
Do you have any other suggestions to troubleshooting approaches to why my system is unable to "find/use" this plugin?

Here is my config:

var config = ConfigurationFactory.ParseString(@"
akka.persistence {
journal {
azure-table {
# qualified type name of the Azure Storage Table persistence journal actor
class = ""Akka.Persistence.AzureTable.Journal.AzureTableJournal, Akka.Persistence.AzureTable""

        # dispatcher used to drive journal actor
        plugin-dispatcher = ""akka.actor.default-dispatcher""

        # connection string used for database access
        connection-string = ""myconnectionstringtoazuredb""

        # table storage table corresponding with persistent journal
        table-name = events

        # metadata table
        metadata-table-name = metadata

        # should corresponding journal table be initialized automatically
        auto-initialize = on
    }
}
snapshot-store {
    azure-table {
        # qualified type name of the Azure Storage Table persistence snapshot-store actor
        class = ""Akka.Persistence.AzureTable.Snapshot.AzureSnapshotStore, 
                 Akka.Persistence.AzureTable""

       # dispatcher used to drive snapshot-store actor
       plugin-dispatcher = ""akka.actor.default-dispatcher""

  # connection string used for database access
  connection-string = ""myconnectionstringtoazuredb""

   # table storage table corresponding with persistent snapshot-store
   table-name = snapshots

       # should corresponding snapshot-store table be initialized automatically
       auto-initialize = off

}
}
}");

        MyActorSystem= ActorSystem.Create("MyActorSystem", config);

any help appreciated.

I get OutOfRangeInput failures which seems to origin from the fact that the PatitionKey & RowKey contains the '/' character. PartitionKey & RowKey must not contain the '/' character according to microsoft.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/fileservices/Understanding-the-Table-Service-Data-Model?redirectedfrom=MSDN

This since they seem to be set to the patj of a actor. Is this by design or have I configured the journal etc. in some faulty way?

Exception:

Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.StorageException: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table.Protocol.TableOperationHttpResponseParsers.TableOperationPreProcess(TableResult result, TableOperation operation, HttpWebResponse resp, Exception ex) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Table\Protocol\TableOperationHttpResponseParsers.cs:line 53
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table.TableOperation.<>c__DisplayClass4.b__2(RESTCommand1 cmd, HttpWebResponse resp, Exception ex, OperationContext ctx) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Table\TableOperation.cs:line 133 at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.EndGetResponse[T](IAsyncResult getResponseResult) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Executor\Executor.cs:line 299 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Executor.Executor.EndExecuteAsync[T](IAsyncResult result) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Executor\Executor.cs:line 50 at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table.CloudTable.EndExecute(IAsyncResult asyncResult) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Table\CloudTable.cs:line 95 at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Core.Util.AsyncExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass11.b__0(IAsyncResult ar) in c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\release_dotnet_master\Lib\ClassLibraryCommon\Core\Util\AsyncExtensions.cs:line 66
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Akka.Persistence.AzureTable.Journal.AzureTableJournal.d__9.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Akka.Persistence.AzureTable.Journal.AzureTableJournal.d__8.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Akka.Util.Internal.AtomicState.d__71.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at Akka.Util.Internal.AtomicState.<CallThrough>d__71.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Akka.Pattern.Closed.d__21.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Akka.Pattern.CircuitBreaker.<WithCircuitBreaker>d__321.MoveNext()
Request Information
RequestID:756ce1be-0ef4-42dd-a26d-3df1a16ed2ef
RequestDate:Sat, 01 Apr 2017 22:52:30 GMT
StatusMessage:Bad Request
ErrorCode:OutOfRangeInput

Problem with manifests deserialization still in place :)

Reproduce:

1. download this
   https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/Akka.Persistence.AzureTable/0.2.0-beta
   or simple

dotnet add package Akka.Persistence.AzureTable --version 0.2.0-beta

2. unzip nupkg file
   check version of dll
   

OR decompile dll and check the code:

last argument in JournalEntry ctor should be: message.Payload.GetType().TypeQualifiedNameForManifest()