TisonKun created FLINK-12887:
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             Summary: Schedule UnfencedMessage would lost envelope info 
                 Key: FLINK-12887
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12887
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Runtime / Coordination
    Affects Versions: 1.9.0
            Reporter: TisonKun


We provide {{runAsync}}, {{callAsync}} and {{scheduleRunAsync}} for 
{{MainThreadExecutable}}, while providing {{runAsyncWithoutFencing}} and 
{{callAsyncWithoutFencing}} additionally for {{FencedMainThreadExecutable}}.

Let's think about a case when we want to schedule a unfenced runnable or any 
other unfenced message(currently, we don't have such code path but it's 
semantically valid.). 

1. {{FencedAkkaRpcActor}} received an unfenced runnable with delay
2. It extracted the runnable from unfenced message and call 
{{super.handleRpcMessage}}.
3. {{AkkaRpcActor}} enveloped the message and schedule it by 
{{AkkaRpcActor#L410}}.

However, {{FencedAkkaRpcActor#envelopeSelfMessage}} was called for envelope. 
Thus the unfenced message now become a fenced message.

We can anyway implement {{scheduleRunAsyncWithoutFencing}} to schedule unfenced 
message directly by {{actorsystem.scheduler.scheduleOnce(..., dispatcher)}}, 
but with current codebase I notice that {{RunAsync}} has a wried 
{{atTimeNanos}}(i.e., delay) property. Ideally how to schedule a message is 
shown on what params ScheduleExecutorService called with, at least we cannot 
extract an unfenced message and envelop it into a fence message and then 
schedule it, which goes into wrong semantic.

cc [~till.rohrmann]



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