How to start a new (independent) workflow from within an activity #240
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You're right about it interfering. One option would be to dispatch a plain job and then inside that job you could start the new independent workflow. Another option which is roughly the same thing would be a queued event listener. Also the same approach would work for signaling a workflow as well. I'll think about how this could be made easier. Let me know if you have any thoughts as well. Thanks! |
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I think signaling causes the same problem if I signal from inside of an activity. I may be wrong, but do you happen to know if that's going to cause the same issue? |
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Just a quick note to say that I verified that calling a workflow signal from within an activity also causes the context to be overwritten. From what I can see, there is currently no way to interact with a workflow from within an activity. An activity cannot signal, query, or start a workflow. In my use-case, I'd eventually like my second workflow to signal the first workflow, but that's also precluded by the implementation of context. For now, I'll do as you suggest and use a job to create the second workflow. |
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I want to create and start a new workflow within the activity of a different workflow. It seems that this can't work because
WorkflowStub::setContext()is called anytime a workflow is created, and that messes up the context of the activity if it's called within an activity.For simplicity, let's say I have a workflow for performing a user's password reset. If they successfully reset their password, I want to dispatch a welcome email series before sending them the final password reset instructions. When the password is reset, I want the password reset workflow to be marked complete and the second workflow (the welcome email series) to be in progress.
Is there a supported method to start a separate (not child) workflow within an activity?
On top of that, is there a supported method to call a workflow
Signalmethod from an activity within that workflow or within another workflow?Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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