Suppose I’m writing a workflow which uses an activity to call an API. The API accepts an idempotency key. The workflow could call randomUUID() to generate a safe, replayable UUID. The activity execution also has access to its own activity id. If the activity id is unique, perhaps we could save a…

Is a system generated activity id suitable to use as an idempotency key?

maxim August 17, 2024, 9:38pm 2

The duplicated activity IDs are possible only if they are provided by the application code.

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