temporalio / temporalio/features

[Feature Request] SDK should fail a workflow task if it receives non-ignorable events that it doesn't handle

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enhancement
Dominant language
Go
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Forks
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1d 9h
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Description

We've recently added the worker_may_ignore flag to history events.

SDKs should start using this flag to enable adding new events that are safe to ignore by older SDKs.

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Research direction

Start with the worker_may_ignore flag in temporal/api/history/v1/message.proto and inspect the history-event handling paths covered by this repository’s compatibility tests. Define how SDKs should fail a workflow task for unhandled non-ignorable events, then add coverage showing the behavior across the relevant SDKs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
distributed-systems, testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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