How can client know that a workflow is canceled?

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When developing workflow, sometimes the client may cancel the workflow execution. I now know two ways to do that:

  1. use WorkflowStub.cancel()
  2. send a cancel signal, and inside the signal handler, i will cancel the cancellationScope and throw a CancelledFailure.
    My question is how can the client knows that a workflow is canceled. or i mean, finished its canceling logic and update its status to canceled or failed.
    Thanks.
2

The client can wait for the workflow result. When cancelled or failed, the exception will be thrown.

3

THanks! Will below implementation work?

WorkflowStub untyped = Workflow.NewUntypedStub(workflowId);
untyped.cancel();
String result = untyped.getResult(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS, String.class);
4

Yes, this code looks fine.