Most of my platform has the classic Temporal use case, business logic revolving a lot of non deterministic io calls. Perfect for workflow replay and state. My problem is with polling. I need to have a very long running workflow, potentially forever lived, that polls a database/queue and then deploy…

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I still don’t think this issue is resolved. My case would be the last one you’ve mentioned, and I can’t see how a child workflow solves this matter. The main polling loop that calls this workflow would still save redundant state from previous polls for this. I also must ask, what is the value I hav…

Sorry, I don’t understand your question. What state do you need to keep between polls that has not been passed already as an activity argument?

That’s the thing, I don’t have any. I want to save workflow state only for the current poll. In my case, it would be the resulting daos and the deploying activity.

What is a dao? How do you identify a resource so that you know if it’s the same? (That is, how do you deduplicate messages you pull from your database/queue?)

Is Temporal inherently not built for long polling?

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Is Temporal inherently not built for long polling?

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