temporalio / temporalio/temporal
Make Nexus work out of the box with zero config
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Since Sep 8, 2025.
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Description
Start with
- Allow
temporal://systemURLs always to be attached as callbacks. - Dispatch
temporal://systemcallback URLs internally, automatically (see link below).
Then
- Add a token here.
Then update the SPEC and Nexus SDKs
- In the Nexus SPEC.md, call out that the
Nexus-Callback-Tokenis a standard header and that it is required as part of theStartOperationrequest. - In the Nexus SDKs (start with Go), add a
CallbackToken []byte (or string TBD)field inStartOpertionOptions(called details, context) in the other SDKs.
Once the server can handle these new URLs, switch to using them
- Behind a dynamic config, which can be deprecated in a few releases.
- Default the server's callback URL to
temporal://system.- The callback URL template, must be provided when making "external" calls but "worker" endpoints should use the
temporal://systemcallback URL.
- The callback URL template, must be provided when making "external" calls but "worker" endpoints should use the
- Figure out how to make this work in Cloud.
Reference
https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/16b1e29b2a86eaf1a95e026e49e16f31f8c414aa/components/callbacks/fx.go#L45
https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/16b1e29b2a86eaf1a95e026e49e16f31f8c414aa/components/nexusoperations/fx.go#L102-L111
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