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[jira] [Created] (FLINK-1508) Remove AkkaUtils.ask to encourage explicit future handling

Till Rohrmann created FLINK-1508:
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             Summary: Remove AkkaUtils.ask to encourage explicit future handling
                 Key: FLINK-1508
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1508
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Till Rohrmann


{{AkkaUtils.ask}} asks another actor and awaits its response. Since this constitutes a blocking call, it might be potentially harmful when used in an actor thread. In order to encourage developers to program asynchronously I propose to remove this helper function. That forces the developer to handle futures explicitly.



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