Execute some code when activity retries are exhausted

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Hello,

I have a temporal workflow which runs 5 activities. Each activity has different retry options and I want to run some code (which includes terminating workflow, calling a different activity) when activity retries are exhausted.

How can I achieve this ?

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When an activity retries are exhausted, ActivityFailure exception is thrown to the workflow code. So your code can catch this exception and perform any necessary logic.

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Thanks @maxim. Also are there any best practices of terminating a typed workflow ? Can you share some examples.

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lso are there any best practices of terminating a typed workflow ? Can you share some examples.

What are you trying to achieve? Do you want to “kill -9” your workflows without any chance of orderly cleanup? Or you want to workflow to complete upon an external event?

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@maxim I want to orderly terminate and cleanup the workflow when one of the activity fails after retries.

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Then you just catch the exception from the activity invocation, perform cleanup in the catch block and return the workflow function.