temporalio / temporalio/temporal
Support `WorkflowIdConflictPolicy` for child workflow
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
WorkflowIdReusePolicy's Terminate-if-Running is being deprecated and replaced with WorkflowIdConflictPolicy's Terminate-Existing.
To complete this effort, support for child workflows is needed.
Describe the solution you'd like
TBD
Describe alternatives you've considered
TBD
Additional context
This is blocking https://github.com/temporalio/features/issues/558
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points; start by locating child-workflow handling and the existing WorkflowIdReusePolicy support. Clarify how WorkflowIdConflictPolicy should map to child workflows, then define tests covering Terminate-Existing behavior before implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100