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/**
* Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Typesafe Inc.
*/
package akka.pattern
object Patterns {
import akka.actor.{ ActorRef, ActorSystem }
import akka.dispatch.Future
import akka.pattern.{ ask ⇒ scalaAsk, pipe ⇒ scalaPipe }
import akka.util.{ Timeout, Duration }
/**
* Java API for `akka.pattern.ask`:
* Sends a message asynchronously and returns a [[akka.dispatch.Future]]
* holding the eventual reply message; this means that the target actor
* needs to send the result to the `sender` reference provided. The Future
* will be completed with an [[akka.actor.AskTimeoutException]] after the
* given timeout has expired; this is independent from any timeout applied
* while awaiting a result for this future (i.e. in
* `Await.result(..., timeout)`).
*
* Warning:
* When using future callbacks, inside actors you need to carefully avoid closing over
* the containing actor’s object, i.e. do not call methods or access mutable state
* on the enclosing actor from within the callback. This would break the actor
* encapsulation and may introduce synchronization bugs and race conditions because
* the callback will be scheduled concurrently to the enclosing actor. Unfortunately
* there is not yet a way to detect these illegal accesses at compile time.
*
* Recommended usage:
*
* {{{
* final Future
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