Child workflow cancel

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1

I need to cancel the child workflow at some period of time in the future.
I am running a cron-type child workflow and want to terminate it without canceling the parent workflow.
The question is how I can do that with python SDK.
Seems like this works fine:
handle.close()

Or maybe you know a better way how to delay child workflow for 24 without using cron and then canceling?

2

Yes, that works fine. So you can just sleep for 24 hours and then issue that cancel like any other Python asyncio task (untested just typed here in forum):

handle = await workflow.start_child_workflow(MyChildWorkflow.run)
async def cancel_after_some_time():
    await asyncio.sleep(24 * 60 * 60)
    handle.cancel()
asyncio.create_task(cancel_after_some_time())
await handle

You can also set a run_timeout (or execution_timeout if you continue-as-new the child or have a retry policy) when starting the child.