temporalio / temporalio/features

[Feature Request] Add GetSignalInfo

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enhancement
Dominant language
Go
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some information about signals is not available within a signal handler. Example of this information is a time the signal was received by a workflow and signal eventId.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add GetSignalInfo call that can be called only from a signal handler and returns this information.

An option for Go would be adding GetSignalWithInfoChannel, which returns a Channel with Signal structures that include info + Value. This can be extended to return a single channel for all (or subset) of signals as this would allow guarantee in-order processing. Then the signal name would be a part of Signal structure.

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Research direction

Start with the existing signal-handler API in the Go SDK and review the requested GetSignalInfo behavior, including signal receipt time and eventId. Compare it with the proposed GetSignalWithInfoChannel design and its ordering implications; done means an agreed API that exposes the requested information only from a signal handler.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
backend-api-design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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