azure - Is it normal to return actor's proxy from service -

i have service accepts data , then, think, should return actor initialized values.

public class myservice : statefulservice, imyservice {     public imyactor dothings(data data)     {         var actor = actorproxy.create<imyactor>(new actorid(guid.newguid()));           actor.init(data);         //some other things         return actor;     } } 

another service this:

var service = serviceproxy.create<icommandbrokerservice>(new uri("fabric:/app"), servicepartitionkey.singleton); var actor = service.dothings(data); var state = actor.getstate(); //... 

so, okay return actor in such way, or should return actor's id , request proxy on call sight?

upd: according @loekd 's answer did wrapper little type-safety.

[datacontract(name = "actorreferenceof{0}wrapper")] public class actorreferencewrapper<t> {     [datamember]     public actorreference actorreference { get; private set; }     public actorreferencewrapper(actorreference actorref)     {         actorreference = actorref ?? throw new argumentnullexception();     }      public t bind()     {         return (t)actorreference.bind(typeof(t));     }      public iactorservice getactorservice(iactorproxyfactory serviceproxy=null)     {         return actorreference.getactorservice(serviceproxy);     }      public tservice getactorservice<tservice>(iactorproxyfactory serviceproxyfactory) tservice : iactorservice     {        return serviceproxyfactory.createactorserviceproxy<tservice>(actorreference.serviceuri,                 actorreference.actorid);     }      public static implicit operator actorreference(actorreferencewrapper<t> actorref)     {         return actorref.actorreference;     }      public static explicit operator actorreferencewrapper<t>(actorreference actorreference)     {         return new actorreferencewrapper<t>(actorreference);     } } 

no, types used in sf remoting must datacontractserializable. contracts use can have fields , properties, no methods.

so, instead of returning proxy, return actor reference.

next, use bind create proxy it.