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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds comprehensive Durable Workflows documentation, including workflow development, durable agents, tutorials, Integration Control Plane operations, Management API references, navigation, and homepage discovery. ChangesDurable workflow foundations
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-agentic-workflow.md`:
- Around line 91-98: Update the durable-result wording after the
supportAgent.getResult example to refer to re-issuing waitForEventResult,
keeping the documented method name consistent with the preceding call.
- Around line 30-32: Update the payClaim activity declaration to remove
retryPolicy: "manager", while preserving userRoles: "manager" for the approval
gate and the object-based retryPolicy on notifyEmployee.
- Line 3: Update the frontmatter slugs in
en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-agentic-workflow.md and
en/docs/workflows/getting-started/build-a-claim-workflow-agent.md to concise
lowercase values, using durable-agentic and build-claim-handling-agent
respectively. Update every markdown link referencing the current filenames so
they point to the renamed slug paths.
In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/human-task-workflow.md`:
- Around line 82-87: Update the workflow data submission example around the post
resource for bills to require authentication and instance-level authorization
before calling workflow:sendData, or explicitly state that these security checks
are omitted for brevity. Ensure unauthorized callers cannot submit
BillSubmission data using only the workflowId.
In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/transaction-workflow.md`:
- Around line 87-90: Update en/docs/workflows/develop/transaction-workflow.md
lines 87-90 to pass a stable idempotency key through the chargeCard activity
alongside the order and amount. Update
en/docs/workflows/develop/review-activity-and-error-handling.md lines 36-39 so
notifyEmployee deduplicates retries using the same stable key, and lines 48-50
so manual makePayment retries preserve that key. Revise line 95 to qualify the
completion guarantee for failed attempts while retaining the requirement that
externally retried activities use idempotency.
In `@en/docs/workflows/getting-started/build-a-claim-workflow-agent.md`:
- Around line 181-182: Update the curl example in the getting-started workflow
documentation to assign the instance ID to a shell variable and use that
variable within a quoted request URL, replacing the angle-bracket placeholder
while preserving the existing endpoint and response example.
- Around line 96-100: Update the payClaim activity documentation to identify it
as a mock rather than a completed payment, since it only returns a payment
identifier and ignores amount; revise the later workflow descriptions at the
sections around lines 162 and 182 to state that the workflow proposed or
approved payment, not that it recorded a paid claim.
- Around line 82-89: Define the ExpenseClaim record before the validateClaim
activity, including claimId, employee, amount, and purpose fields with their
specified types, so the activity and subsequent HTTP resource snippets compile.
- Around line 131-149: Add the ballerina/http import in the example before the
service declaration that uses http:Listener, leaving the /claims service
implementation unchanged.
In `@en/docs/workflows/icp/managing-workflows.md`:
- Line 3: Align the frontmatter title with the visible H1 in the workflow
management documentation, using one canonical page title consistently. Apply the
same correction to the additionally affected 11-11 page.
In `@en/docs/workflows/overview.md`:
- Around line 2-6: Update the front matter slug for the Durable Workflows
Overview page to use a concise route aligned with the title, such as
/durable-overview, while keeping the existing title and directory hierarchy
unchanged.
In `@en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md`:
- Around line 14-21: Update the management API sample so its configuration and
curl examples are consistent: either disable enableApiKey in the base
configuration or add the configured x-api-key header with the sample key to
every affected request example. Apply the same change to the examples referenced
around lines 53-56, 68-72, and 86-90.
- Around line 25-30: Update the “Caller identity headers” section to define a
trusted source and trust boundary for x-user-id and x-user-roles, requiring
values to be set or overwritten by a trusted proxy or validated from signed IdP
claims before use in authorization, filtering, or audit fields.
- Around line 3-10: The Management API documentation must distinguish the
integration-local durable workflow REST API from the ICP Management API, which
uses GraphQL and signed JWT authorization. Update the introduction in
en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md to define this boundary and
clarify that it is not the ICP API, then update the link at
en/docs/workflows/icp/managing-workflows.md line 89 to point to the appropriate
ICP documentation rather than this workflow API reference.
- Line 3: Update the “Management API” documentation identified by the title and
its introduction to clearly describe it as the integration-local or workflow
Management API, not the ICP Management API; preserve the documented REST routes
and x-api-key, x-user-id, and x-user-roles authentication details, and remove
any claim that it represents the ICP GraphQL surface.
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Define concise slugs for these workflow pages and update the links.
These new pages repeat the parent workflows keyword, and the tutorial slug repeats workflow while omitting handling. Use concise, lowercase slugs such as durable-agentic and build-claim-handling-agent, and update the markdown links that point to the current filenames.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-agentic-workflow.md` at line 3, Update the
frontmatter slugs in en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-agentic-workflow.md and
en/docs/workflows/getting-started/build-a-claim-workflow-agent.md to concise
lowercase values, using durable-agentic and build-claim-handling-agent
respectively. Update every markdown link referencing the current filenames so
they point to the renamed slug paths.
Source: Path instructions
| string token = check supportAgent.sendEvent(instanceId, "billSubmitted", submission); | ||
| string reply = check supportAgent.waitForEventResult(instanceId, token); | ||
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| string|error result = supportAgent.getResult(instanceId); | ||
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| All reads are durable: results live in the workflow history, so a crashed caller can re-issue `waitForResult` and get the same answer. |
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Use waitForEventResult in the durable-result wording.
The example uses supportAgent.waitForEventResult(...), but the next sentence tells callers to re-issue waitForResult. Use the documented method name consistently.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-agentic-workflow.md` around lines 91 - 98,
Update the durable-result wording after the supportAgent.getResult example to
refer to re-issuing waitForEventResult, keeping the documented method name
consistent with the preceding call.
| Anyone with the workflow ID can deliver the data — typically a service resource: | ||
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| resource function post [string workflowId]/bills(BillSubmission submission) returns json|error { | ||
| check workflow:sendData(expenseApprovalWorkflow, workflowId, "billSubmitted", submission); | ||
| return {workflowId, status: "BILLS_SUBMITTED"}; |
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Require authorization before accepting workflow data.
The text says that anyone with a workflow ID can submit BillSubmission. If this resource is exposed without authentication and instance-level authorization, a caller who obtains an ID can inject data and resume the workflow with untrusted input. Require authorization, or state that authentication is omitted from this example.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/human-task-workflow.md` around lines 82 - 87,
Update the workflow data submission example around the post resource for bills
to require authentication and instance-level authorization before calling
workflow:sendData, or explicitly state that these security checks are omitted
for brevity. Ensure unauthorized callers cannot submit BillSubmission data using
only the workflowId.
| string paymentRef = check ctx->callActivity(chargeCard, | ||
| {"orderId": input.orderId, "amount": input.amount}, | ||
| retryPolicy = {maxRetries: 3, retryDelay: 2, retryBackoff: 2.0}); | ||
| ``` |
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Make retried external activities idempotent and qualify replay guarantees.
The payment and notification examples enable retries without showing a stable idempotency key. The compensation text also implies that an externally completed activity cannot be repeated, which is not safe to assume for failed attempts.
en/docs/workflows/develop/transaction-workflow.md#L87-L90: pass a stable idempotency key tochargeCard.en/docs/workflows/develop/review-activity-and-error-handling.md#L36-L39: makenotifyEmployeededuplicate retries.en/docs/workflows/develop/review-activity-and-error-handling.md#L48-L50: preserve the same key across manualmakePaymentretries.en/docs/workflows/develop/review-activity-and-error-handling.md#L95-L95: qualify the completion guarantee and retain the idempotency requirement.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/transaction-workflow.md` around lines 87 - 90,
Update en/docs/workflows/develop/transaction-workflow.md lines 87-90 to pass a
stable idempotency key through the chargeCard activity alongside the order and
amount. Update en/docs/workflows/develop/review-activity-and-error-handling.md
lines 36-39 so notifyEmployee deduplicates retries using the same stable key,
and lines 48-50 so manual makePayment retries preserve that key. Revise line 95
to qualify the completion guarantee for failed attempts while retaining the
requirement that externally retried activities use idempotency.
| title: Durable Workflows Overview | ||
| description: Build long-running, crash-safe business processes with WSO2 Integrator using durable workflows, human tasks, events, and durable AI agents. | ||
| keywords: [wso2 integrator, durable workflow, workflow, human task, agentic workflow, durable agent, temporal, long running, crash recovery] | ||
| sidebar_label: Overview | ||
| slug: /workflows/overview |
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Align the overview slug with the page title and directory hierarchy.
slug: /workflows/overview repeats the workflows parent keyword and omits durable from Durable Workflows Overview. Use a concise slug such as /durable-overview, or change the title to match the intended route.
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| title: Durable Workflows Overview | |
| description: Build long-running, crash-safe business processes with WSO2 Integrator using durable workflows, human tasks, events, and durable AI agents. | |
| keywords: [wso2 integrator, durable workflow, workflow, human task, agentic workflow, durable agent, temporal, long running, crash recovery] | |
| sidebar_label: Overview | |
| slug: /workflows/overview | |
| title: Durable Workflows Overview | |
| description: Build long-running, crash-safe business processes with WSO2 Integrator using durable workflows, human tasks, events, and durable AI agents. | |
| keywords: [wso2 integrator, durable workflow, workflow, human task, agentic workflow, durable agent, temporal, long running, crash recovery] | |
| sidebar_label: Overview | |
| slug: /durable-overview |
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In `@en/docs/workflows/overview.md` around lines 2 - 6, Update the front matter
slug for the Durable Workflows Overview page to use a concise route aligned with
the title, such as /durable-overview, while keeping the existing title and
directory hierarchy unchanged.
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| title: "Management API" | ||
| description: REST API reference for managing WSO2 Integrator durable workflows — instances, execution graphs, human tasks, and review activities. | ||
| keywords: [wso2 integrator, durable workflow, management api, rest, human task api, review activity api] | ||
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| Every integration with durable workflows can expose a **Management API** — the same REST surface the [Integration Control Plane](../icp/managing-workflows.md) uses. Enable it to build custom portals, automations, or operational tooling. |
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Clarify the Management API contract for durable workflows.
en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md now describes a REST API, but the existing ICP Management API content uses GraphQL with signed JWT authorization. Resolve whether these are separate APIs; if the workflow API is integration-local, document that boundary and update the link from en/docs/workflows/icp/managing-workflows.md.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md` around lines 3 - 10, The
Management API documentation must distinguish the integration-local durable
workflow REST API from the ICP Management API, which uses GraphQL and signed JWT
authorization. Update the introduction in
en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md to define this boundary and
clarify that it is not the ICP API, then update the link at
en/docs/workflows/icp/managing-workflows.md line 89 to point to the appropriate
ICP documentation rather than this workflow API reference.
| ```toml | ||
| [ballerina.workflow.management] | ||
| enableManagementApi = true | ||
| port = 8234 # default | ||
| enableApiKey = true # optional API-key protection | ||
| apiKeyValue = "<key>" | ||
| apiKeyHeader = "x-api-key" | ||
| ``` |
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Make the examples work with the sample configuration.
The sample enables API-key protection with x-api-key, but every curl example omits that header. A copied example will be rejected. Either disable API-key protection in the base example or add -H 'x-api-key: <key>' to each request.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md` around lines 14 - 21, Update
the management API sample so its configuration and curl examples are consistent:
either disable enableApiKey in the base configuration or add the configured
x-api-key header with the sample key to every affected request example. Apply
the same change to the examples referenced around lines 53-56, 68-72, and 86-90.
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| | `x-user-id` | Recorded in audit fields (`completedBy`, `decidedBy`). | | ||
| | `x-user-roles` | Comma-separated roles; tasks and reviews are filtered and authorized against them. | |
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Define a trusted source for identity headers.
x-user-roles controls visibility and authorization, and x-user-id feeds audit fields. When the API accepts these headers directly, callers can impersonate another user or role. Define the trust boundary for these values, such as requiring a trusted proxy to set/overwrite them or validating signed identity claims from an IdP.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/reference/management-api.md` around lines 25 - 30, Update
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boundary for x-user-id and x-user-roles, requiring values to be set or
overwritten by a trusted proxy or validated from signed IdP claims before use in
authorization, filtering, or audit fields.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/activities.md`:
- Line 13: Correct the grammar in the activity definition by changing “its
modeled as a function” to “it's modeled as a function,” without modifying the
surrounding explanation.
- Around line 60-66: Update the table descriptions for Activity Arguments and
Retry Policy: correct “relevent” to “relevant,” change “failied” to “fails,” and
ensure the retry-policy sentence is grammatically complete and clear.
In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/create-workflow.md`:
- Around line 1-5: Update the frontmatter slug for create-workflow.md to use
create (or an equivalent explicit Docusaurus slug), start-workflow.md in develop
to use start, managing-workflows.md to use manage, and start-workflow.md in icp
to use start; apply these changes at the listed frontmatter ranges in each file
so the parent workflows keyword is not repeated.
In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/data-events.md`:
- Around line 50-59: Update the data-event documentation to make authentication
and instance-level authorization mandatory before calling workflow:sendData,
rather than treating the workflow ID as sufficient: in
en/docs/workflows/develop/data-events.md lines 50-59, add those checks to the
submission example or explicitly label them as omitted; in
en/docs/workflows/develop/send-data-event.md lines 42-46, replace guidance
implying any integration with the ID may deliver data with authenticated,
authorized delivery guidance; and in
en/docs/workflows/getting-started/build-an-order-processing-workflow.md lines
383-385, require protection of the payment callback before it invokes
workflow:sendData.
In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-timers.md`:
- Around line 35-39: Update the durable-wait documentation to make one precise
resource guarantee: waiting workflows hold no active execution resources such as
worker threads or connections, but their state and history remain persisted. In
en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-timers.md lines 35-39, replace “no memory” and
“cost nothing”; in en/docs/workflows/develop/data-events.md line 23, replace “it
costs nothing while it waits”; in
en/docs/workflows/develop/human-task-workflow.md line 13, remove the no-memory
claim; and in
en/docs/workflows/getting-started/build-an-order-processing-workflow.md lines
164-165, describe suspension without implying zero storage or operational cost.
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| An **activity** is a single unit of work that the durable runtime records and its modeled as a function. Anything that touches the outside world — an API call, a database write, a payment, an email — belongs in an activity rather than in the workflow body. That split is what makes a workflow crash-safe: the workflow function can be replayed from the start after a restart, while the work already done inside activities is read back from the record instead of being repeated. |
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Fix the grammar in the activity definition.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/activities.md` at line 13, Correct the grammar in
the activity definition by changing “its modeled as a function” to “it's modeled
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| | Field | Required | Description | | ||
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| | **Activity Arguments** | Yes | Form field will appear for each activity function parameter. Provide the relevent arguments for each required parameter | | ||
| | **Retry Policy** | Yes | When an activity call failied, how should the workflow handle it. No Automatic Retry, Auto Retry, Human Review. See [Error handling and review activities](review-activity-and-error-handling.md). | | ||
| | **Result** | Only if the output of the activity is not `null` | Name of the result variable to capture the activity's output. | | ||
| | **Result type** | Only if the output of the activity is not `null` | Type of the resulting data of the activity function. | | ||
| | **Check Error** | No | Under **Advanced Configurations**. Adds `check` to the call so a failure propagates to the workflow. Clear it to handle the error yourself. Default to `checked` | |
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Correct the field descriptions before publishing.
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table descriptions for Activity Arguments and Retry Policy: correct “relevent”
to “relevant,” change “failied” to “fails,” and ensure the retry-policy sentence
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| title: "Create a Workflow" | ||
| description: Add a durable workflow artifact in WSO2 Integrator, give it an input type, and design its steps on the workflow diagram. | ||
| keywords: [wso2 integrator, durable workflow, create workflow, workflow artifact, workflow input type, workflow context] |
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| Anyone holding the workflow ID can deliver a value with `workflow:sendData`, naming the event to fill. Typically that is a service resource: | ||
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en/docs/workflows/develop/data-events.md#L50-L59: require authentication and instance-level authorization in the data-submission example, or label those checks as omitted.en/docs/workflows/develop/send-data-event.md#L42-L46: replace the “any integration with the ID” guidance with authenticated, authorized delivery guidance.en/docs/workflows/getting-started/build-an-order-processing-workflow.md#L383-L385: protect the payment callback before it callsworkflow:sendData.
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data-event documentation to make authentication and instance-level authorization
mandatory before calling workflow:sendData, rather than treating the workflow ID
as sufficient: in en/docs/workflows/develop/data-events.md lines 50-59, add
those checks to the submission example or explicitly label them as omitted; in
en/docs/workflows/develop/send-data-event.md lines 42-46, replace guidance
implying any integration with the ID may deliver data with authenticated,
authorized delivery guidance; and in
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383-385, require protection of the payment callback before it invokes
workflow:sendData.
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| - The deadline is **recorded**. Restart the integration, redeploy it, or lose the process to a crash, and the timer still fires at its original time. | ||
| - On replay, an **already-elapsed timer does not wait again.** Like a completed activity, it is read back from the record, so a restart never restarts the clock. |
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durable-wait documentation to make one precise resource guarantee: waiting
workflows hold no active execution resources such as worker threads or
connections, but their state and history remain persisted. In
en/docs/workflows/develop/durable-timers.md lines 35-39, replace “no memory” and
“cost nothing”; in en/docs/workflows/develop/data-events.md line 23, replace “it
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claim; and in
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| ```ballerina | ||
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| function orderWorkflow(workflow:Context ctx, OrderInfo orderInfo) returns json|error { | ||
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In Ballerina, a function annotated with @workflow:Workflow is a durable function that must return a value that is a subtype of anydata or an error [1][2]. Regarding implicit returns and empty bodies: 1. Implicit Returns: Ballerina, as a language, allows an implicit return of (nil) for functions where the return type includes (e.g., returns error? or returns json|error?). If a @workflow:Workflow function signature specifies a return type that includes, you may omit an explicit return statement at the end of the function body [1][3]. 2. Empty Body: An empty function body effectively returns, which is compatible with the return type only if is included in the declared return type (e.g., returns anydata|error? or simply returns error?) [1][4]. If the return type is strictly json|error, an empty body will result in a compilation error because is not a subtype of json [1][2]. 3. Documentation: The official documentation requires that the return type of a @workflow:Workflow function be a subtype of anydata or error [1][2]. Activities and workflows follow standard Ballerina typing rules [3][4]. If your workflow logic finishes without an explicit return, ensure the signature allows for the nil value [1][4]. For specific workflow implementation, use the check operator to propagate errors from activity calls [5][4]. If your workflow logic is meant to return a result after successfully completing steps, an explicit return is standard practice [6][3].
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- 2: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow
- 3: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/get-started.md
- 4: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/write-activity-functions.md
- 5: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/handle-errors.md
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Use error? or return a JSON value.
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around lines 78 - 82, Update the return types of orderWorkflow and the other
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results are unused, or return a JSON value on every successful path when a JSON
result is intended; ensure all affected declarations at the referenced examples
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| 10. Give the activity something to do. Click the open icon on the node to open its own diagram, To make it simple let's mock the implementation to a log line. | ||
| 11. Click **+**, then **Log Info** under **Logging**. Set **Msg** to `Inventory reserved` and click **Save**. |
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around lines 114 - 115, Correct the specified walkthrough copy errors throughout
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“received,” change “simple lets” to “simple, let's,” revise “Click on the text
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| ```ballerina | ||
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Ballerina workflow sendData returns error? resource function returns json error check statement
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In Ballerina, the workflow:sendData() function is designed to signal a running workflow [1][2]. It returns an error? type (meaning it returns nil on success or an error on failure) [2]. If workflow:sendData() returns an error, it indicates that the signal was not accepted by the workflow engine (e.g., the engine is unavailable) [1][3]. In such cases, the sender is responsible for retrying the operation [1][3]. To handle this in a resource function, you should use the check keyword to propagate the error or handle it explicitly with an if statement [4][5]. Handling Errors in Resource Functions: 1. Using check: The most idiomatic way to handle operations that can fail is to use the check keyword [4][5]. This requires your resource function's return type to include error [4]. ballerina resource function post sendSignal(string workflowId) returns json|error { // If sendData fails, the resource function returns the error immediately check workflow:sendData(myWorkflow, workflowId, "event", {data: "value"}); return {status: "success"}; } 2. Explicit Error Checking: If you need to perform custom logic (like logging or specific recovery) when a send operation fails, use an if statement with a type guard [5]. ballerina resource function post sendSignal(string workflowId) returns json|error { error? result = workflow:sendData(myWorkflow, workflowId, "event", {data: "value"}); if result is error { // Handle the error (e.g., log it, return a custom error, or retry) return error("Failed to send data: " + result.message()); } return {status: "success"}; } Key Considerations: - Delivery Guarantees: workflow:sendData() only guarantees delivery if it returns successfully [1]. If it returns an error, the state is uncertain, and retries are necessary [1][3]. - Idempotency: When implementing retries for sendData(), ensure your workflow logic is idempotent, as retries can occasionally result in duplicate signals being processed [3]. - Return Types: Resource functions in Ballerina can return anydata (including json) or error [6]. Ensure your function signature explicitly supports returning errors if you intend to use check [4].
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- 1: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/handle-data.md
- 2: https://central.ballerina.io/ballerina/workflow/0.8.3
- 3: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/handle-errors.md
- 4: https://learn-ballerina.github.io/best_practices/return_errors_and_use_check.html
- 5: https://ballerina.io/learn/language-basics/
- 6: https://ballerina.io/spec/http/
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site:central.ballerina.io/ballerina/workflow sendData returns string error 0.8.3
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In the Ballerina workflow library version 0.8.3, the sendData function is documented to return a string|error type [1]. Specifically, this function is used to send an event to a running instance on a declared channel, and upon success, it returns a string representing a correlation token that can be used for subsequent operations such as getDataResult or waitForDataResult [1]. If the operation fails, it returns an error [1]. It is important to distinguish this from the other sendData function available in the same library, which is used to send data to a workflow's event record; that specific variant returns error? (meaning it returns () on success or an error on failure) [1]. If you are encountering an issue described as a "string error," ensure you are calling the correct variant and handling the returned string|error appropriately using a check expression or error handling pattern [1].
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Ballerina workflow:sendData workflow function orderWorkflow workflowId dataName returns error?
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The workflow:sendData function in the Ballerina workflow module is defined to return error? [1]. This means the function returns () (nil) on success—indicating the signal has been accepted by the workflow engine—or an error if the operation fails [2][1]. Because it returns an error type, it is standard practice to use the check keyword when calling workflow:sendData to handle potential failures, such as when the workflow engine is unavailable [2][3]. The function signature is as follows: function sendData(function() () workflow, string workflowId, string dataName, anydata data) returns error? [1] Parameter breakdown: - workflow: The workflow function reference (which must be annotated with @Workflow) [2][1]. - workflowId: The ID of the running workflow instance [2][1]. - dataName: The name of the data channel, which must match a field name in the workflow's events record [2][3]. - data: The payload being sent, which must match the type expected by the corresponding channel [2][1].
Citations:
- 1: https://central.ballerina.io/ballerina/workflow/0.8.3
- 2: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/handle-data.md
- 3: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow/blob/main/docs/key-concepts.md
Return a JSON response from the payment callback.
workflow:sendData(...) returns error?; check propagates only errors and returns no JSON on success. Add a success payload, or change the resource return type.
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- Line 27: Update the non-H1 headings “Auto Retry — for transient failures” and
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Change ## Auto Retry — for transient failures to ## Auto retry — for transient failures. Change ## Human Review — when a person should fix it to ## Human review — when a person should fix it. Keep the exact UI labels in tables and body text.
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In `@en/docs/workflows/develop/review-activity-and-error-handling.md` at line 27,
Update the non-H1 headings “Auto Retry — for transient failures” and “Human
Review — when a person should fix it” to sentence case by lowercasing “Retry”
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Make the Reviewer Roles requirement consistent.
The table marks Reviewer Roles as required, but the description says that an empty value lets any role decide. Set Required to No if an empty value is valid, or remove the empty-value behavior if the field is required. Keep this consistent with the approval-gate row at Lines 56-59.
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its Required value matches the documented empty-value behavior, using the
approval-gate row as the consistency reference; retain the behavior that an
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A new top-level section alongside AI Integrations, written low-code-first (designer steps with image placeholders, generated code as snippets): - Overview: durability, interruptibility, reliability; control-flow vs agentic comparison; section index. - Getting Started: Build a Claim Handling Agent — a durable agentic workflow with a gated payment approved from the Integration Control Plane, in seven simplified steps. - Workflow Features: Transaction Workflows (activities, exactly-once recording, Auto Retry, durable timers), Human Task Workflows (typed decisions render as forms, data events, timeouts), Review Activities & Error Handling (the three retry policies, approval gates), and Durable Agentic Workflows (the DurableAgent declaration and its capabilities). - Integration Control Plane: connecting the runtime bridge, roles, the execution graph (including waiting data events), the task inbox, and instance controls. - Tutorials: index with the planned tutorial list. - API Reference: the Management API, verified against the actual service routes (instances, execution graphs, human tasks, review activities). UX steps follow the current ballerina-vscode designer flows (Add Artifact -> Durable Agentic Workflow -> Create Agent, the agent canvas capability affordances, ICP inbox decisions). Site builds clean.
Add a "Durable workflows" section to the Integration Artifacts page, following the AI integrations pattern: the section lives on the page and links out to the top-level Durable Workflows section rather than being added to the sidebar. Add a matching Durable Workflows card to the homepage section grid, which also squares off the previously ragged last row of the 3-column grid. Rename static/img/workflow to static/img/workflows so the image directory mirrors its docs/ section name, matching every other section under static/img and fixing the MDX build failure for the unresolved create-agent.png reference.
Replaces the transaction workflow page with a ten-step guide that builds the workflow in the visual designer: create the artifact and its input type, reserve inventory, wait for a payment data event, branch, send or cancel, start it from an HTTP service, and run it in IN_MEMORY mode. Each step carries a screencast recorded from the IDE.
Splits the workflow feature reference into a page per capability: activities, data events, human tasks, review activities and error handling, durable timers, and durable agentic workflows. Data events move out of the human task page into their own, and each page documents the forms the IDE presents rather than the code alone.
Documents the three durable wrappers that ship with the runtime, so a REST call, a SOAP call, or an SMTP email runs as a recorded activity without writing one: an overview covering connections, the shared retry and error fields, and a page per activity with its form fields.
Covers adding the durable workflow artifact, giving it an input type, and what the workflow context is, then starting a run with the Run Workflow step, keeping the workflow ID, and reading a result.
Child workflows are not documented in this iteration, so remove them from the execution graph and timeline tables and from the management API node type list.
Renames the Workflow Features category to Develop Workflows, puts the order processing guide first under Getting Started, adds the create, start, and prebuilt activity pages, and mirrors the same order on the Durable Workflows overview.
Adds the artifact page and creation form screenshots to Create a Workflow, points its input type field at the Types doc, and gives Start a Workflow the node panel shot, the Run Workflow screencast, and a diagram of a resource that starts a run.
Adds the sidebar screenshot for creating an activity, and documents the Check Error advanced configuration on an activity call.
Renames the page to Await Data Events, adds the steps for the Await Data Event node with its Data Waits entry, folds Min Count and Timeout into the same field table, and illustrates both with a screencast and a diagram of a workflow halted on a wait.
Documents the Send Data Event step: the Workflow Name dropdown lists the project's workflows and Data Name then lists that workflow's declared events, so a delivery cannot name an event the workflow never declared.
Follows one example end to end, an HR lead assigning a new joiner to a team: the form's fields, the payload that shows the employee beside the form, and the record the decision is typed with. Closes by naming the two ways a task is completed, the Control Plane inbox and the management API.
Reorders the title to Error Handling & Review Activities, and updates every reference that names a renamed page: await data events, await human task, and error handling and review activities. Also lists Send a Data Event on the overview and renumbers the sidebar positions.
Add the visual designer walkthroughs and screenshots for handling an activity error in the workflow logic, and for creating, configuring, and giving capabilities to a durable agent. Rename the replay section to Crash recovery and point the Check Error field at it.
Move the durable agent doc out of Develop Workflows into a new Develop Agentic Workflows section and build it out into five pages covering the agent lifecycle: - Create a Durable Agent (was Durable Agentic Workflows), with the human task capability documented and the events intro rewritten to compare agent data waits with workflow ones - Run a Durable Agent - Send an Agent Data Event - Get a Data Event Result - Get an Agent Result Repoint the inbound links in the workflow overview, activities, create-workflow, review-activity-and-error-handling, and the claim agent getting started page.
Turn the Get Data Event Result mention in the Response Type row into a link, and call the agent's channels data event channels.
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Drop the durability claims from the blocking read descriptions, note that a data event can also carry extra information mid-run, and rename Define an activity to Create an activity.
Lead the Sleep step with the business rule it implements, a 24-hour cooling-off period on customer email changes, and follow the emailChangeRequest workflow through it. Document the Sleep form, the Record Configuration editor, and every duration unit it offers. Replace the missing sleep step screenshot with the emailChangeRequest flow and a walkthrough of adding the step.
Add the plug icon route from the Current Integration header through a connection's operations to a generated activity, with the ftpClient get operation as the example, and split the existing instructions into creating an activity from scratch and from a connection. Move the durable agent activity details onto the durable agent doc, where the rest of the agent's capabilities are described.
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A new top-level section alongside AI Integrations, written low-code-first (designer steps with image placeholders, generated code as snippets):
UX steps follow the current ballerina-vscode designer flows (Add Artifact -> Durable Agentic Workflow -> Create Agent, the agent canvas capability affordances, ICP inbox decisions). Site builds cleanly.
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