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How can I use Akka Actor ask and maintain type safety? or avoid using ask in favour of tells? When calling ? or ask on an Akka Actor, a Future[Any] is returned and I have to do an explicit cast via future.mapTo[MyType] . I don't like losing this type safety. If I use Futures directly (with no actors) I can explicitly return Future[MyType] and maintain type safety. My specific use case involves an actor delegating it's message to two child actors and then aggregating the results from those actors and returning that to the parent's sender. My parent's receive method looks similar to this approach in the Akka Docs: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0/scala/futures.html#For_Comprehensions val f1 = actor1 ? msg val f2 = actor2 ? msg val f3 = for { a ← f1.mapTo[Int] b ← f2.mapTo[Int] c ← ask(actor3, (a + b)).mapTo[Int] } yield c Is there a better way to achieve my use case?
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