temporalio / temporalio/temporal

Make option for UpsertSearchAttribute command to fail if SA does not exists

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, if workflow try to upsert SA from within the workflow and it does not exists, the workflow task will fail and keep retrying forever.

Describe the solution you'd like
Give option for workflow to fail the command if SA does not exists

Describe alternatives you've considered
Work around is to use activity/localActivity to check if SA exists before call upsertSA.
But really the author should make sure the SA exists before the use case go online. Create SA should be handed as one time job and should not be created dynamicly. If you find that you need to create SA dynamicly, you probably doing it wrong. The number of SA is very limited.

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Research direction

Start by locating the UpsertSearchAttribute command and its workflow execution path. Determine how an option should distinguish a missing search attribute from the current retry behavior, then add coverage for the failure and existing-attribute cases. Done means a workflow can choose to fail the command when the search attribute does not exist.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
backend-api-design, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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