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package org.apache.flink.runtime.instance;

import akka.actor.ActorRef;
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext;
import scala.concurrent.Future;
import scala.concurrent.duration.FiniteDuration;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.UUID;

/**
 * Interface to abstract the communication with an actor.
 *
 * It allows to avoid direct interaction with an ActorRef.
 */
public interface ActorGateway extends Serializable {

	/**
	 * Sends a message asynchronously and returns its response. The response to the message is
	 * returned as a future.
	 *
	 * @param message Message to be sent
	 * @param timeout Timeout until the Future is completed with an AskTimeoutException
	 * @return Future which contains the response to the sent message
	 */
	Future ask(Object message, FiniteDuration timeout);

	/**
	 * Sends a message asynchronously without a result.
	 *
	 * @param message Message to be sent
	 */
	void tell(Object message);

	/**
	 * Sends a message asynchronously without a result with sender being the sender.
	 *
	 * @param message Message to be sent
	 * @param sender Sender of the message
	 */
	void tell(Object message, ActorGateway sender);

	/**
	 * Forwards a message. For the receiver of this message it looks as if sender has sent the
	 * message.
	 *
	 * @param message Message to be sent
	 * @param sender Sender of the forwarded message
	 */
	void forward(Object message, ActorGateway sender);

	/**
	 * Retries to send asynchronously a message up to numberRetries times. The response to this
	 * message is returned as a future. The message is re-sent if the number of retries is not yet
	 * exceeded and if an exception occurred while sending it.
	 *
	 * @param message Message to be sent
	 * @param numberRetries Number of times to retry sending the message
	 * @param timeout Timeout for each sending attempt
	 * @param executionContext ExecutionContext which is used to send the message multiple times
	 * @return Future of the response to the sent message
	 */
	Future retry(
			Object message,
			int numberRetries,
			FiniteDuration timeout,
			ExecutionContext executionContext);

	/**
	 * Returns the path of the remote instance.
	 *
	 * @return Path of the remote instance.
	 */
	String path();

	/**
	 * Returns the underlying actor with which is communicated
	 *
	 * @return ActorRef of the target actor
	 */
	ActorRef actor();

	/**
	 * Returns the leaderSessionID associated with the remote actor or null.
	 *
	 * @return Leader session ID if its associated with this gateway, otherwise null
	 */
	UUID leaderSessionID();
}
 















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