Hi, In my use case, I trigger an activity to publish metrics to biq query in a finally block. However, if the workflow gets canceled, that activity is never executed or can’t be because the workflow has been canceled and will get a failed CanceledFailed ActivityFailure. I was wondering if there i…

You can use detached cancellation scope . Here is sample in the Java SDK samples repo.

(Just thinkin out loud). For any clean up for a workflow, shouldn’t we just always run as a detached job? CancellationScope detached = Workflow.newDetachedCancellationScope(() -> greeting = activities.sayGoodBye(name)); detached.run(); vs. catching an exception and then handl…

I’m not sure I understand the question. The cleanup code has to run in a detached scope as it overwise would not be able to run anything as the surrounding scope can be canceled. The reason try-catch is used is because any operation that is invoked from the canceled scope throws a cancelation failu…

How to trigger activity before processing workflow request to cancel?

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darewreck November 16, 2021, 8:39am 5

I was able to get a better understanding after reading this thread Can a child workflow/activity be triggered from a Workflow CancellationScope in the exception block? - #11 by anjo @tihomir shared with me. Thanks.

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