Folks,

  Looking at the API documentation, I am unable to infer what are the 
default units for implicit timeout: 
Timeout<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/util/Timeout.html>
 

if the user specifies a number in the timeout, I am assuming that it will 
assume the units of milliseconds.?. Can some one please confirm ?.

http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/pattern/package.html


defask (actorRef: 
ActorRef<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/actor/ActorRef.html>
, message: Any)(implicit timeout: 
Timeout<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/util/Timeout.html>
): Future <http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/dispatch/Future.html>[Any]

Sends a message asynchronously and returns a 
Future<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/dispatch/Future.html> 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:*

  val f = ask(worker, request)(timeout)
  flow {
    EnrichedRequest(request, f())
  } pipeTo nextActor

[see Future <http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/dispatch/Future.html> for 
a description of flow]
Definition 
ClassesAskSupport<http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0/akka/pattern/AskSupport.html>

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