The preStart and postStop hooks

Let's define these methods in the SimpleActor class to log the starting and stopping of our SimpleActor:

override def preStart(): Unit = log.info("SimpleActor starting!") 
 
override def postStop(): Unit = log.info("SimpleActor stopping!") 

Run:

[INFO] [12/27/2017 14:56:54.887] [SimpleActorSystem-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-3] [akka://SimpleActorSystem/user/simple-actor] SimpleActor starting! 
[INFO] [12/27/2017 14:56:54.915] [SimpleActorSystem-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-2] [akka://SimpleActorSystem/user/simple-actor] Executing GetPlayerInformationRequest(Cristiano Ronaldo, listOfPlayers) 
Player(Cristiano Ronaldo,Portugal,32,Real Madrid,Spain,4829,4789,1,2) 
[INFO] [12/27/2017 14:56:54.938] [SimpleActorSystem-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-2] [akka://SimpleActorSystem/user/simple-actor] SimpleActor stopping...