Execute the workflow from the Rest API

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Hi mi am new to temporal and trying to execute the workflow definition from my Go Rest API. I developed my Rest api using GIN. now when i trying to create temporal client inside the rest api code its shows an error.

cannot use client.Dial((client.Options literal)) (value of type client.Client) as *gin.Context value in assignmentcompilerIncompatibleAssign

c, err := client.Dial(client.Options{})

Any suggestion/document or any reference.

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The client is a heavyweight object and should be created once per process lifetime. So don’t create it inside the Rest API handlers.

3

Thanks Maxim… Is there any alternative to call workflow definition via Rest API without using the client?

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Would it be possible as mentioned to create the client once and reuse it across your router functions? I’m not gin expert but seems doable.