temporalio / temporalio/features

Expose Workflow cancel cause/reason

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enhancement
Dominant language
Go
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32
Forks
28
Avg merge
1d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

WorkflowExecutionCancelRequestedEventAttributes has a cause field that should be exposed when workflows receive cancels, and we should additionally expose this as an input when users are issuing cancels from clients or commands

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Research direction

Start by reviewing WorkflowExecutionCancelRequestedEventAttributes and the linked SDK issues for Python, TypeScript, Java, .NET, Go, and PHP. Confirm how each SDK receives workflow cancels and how clients or commands issue them; the work is done when the cause is exposed to workflows and accepted as cancel input across the listed SDKs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, go, java, php, python, typescript
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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