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No way to use sharded daemon process with custom shard allocation strategy

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#31,320 opened on Apr 6, 2022

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Description

For regular typed sharding we use a field of Entity but a sharded daemon process isn't using the Entity API.

Noticed when answering https://discuss.lightbend.com/t/distribution-of-shardeddaemonprocess-actors/9628

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Investigate the ShardedDaemonProcess source code and the ShardAllocationStrategy interface to find where custom allocation could be integrated.
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