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ably/temporal: AblyRestPlugin, a Temporal worker plugin that owns one long-lived Ably.Rest client and registers an activity for each wrapped REST operation.
ably/temporal/workflow: TemporalRest, which mirrors Ably.Rest for workflow code. Each call runs as an activity named ably.<method>.
What's covered
Wrapped API: channel publish, history, status, message get/update/delete/append/versions, presence get/history, annotations, LiveObjects object.get/publish, batchPublish, batchPresence, request, time, and all of push.admin.
Idempotency: the workflow derives message IDs, idempotency keys and annotation IDs from a named random stream (ably.temporal.messageIds), so a retried activity or a replay sends the same IDs. Calls that already have IDs are sent as they are.
Pagination: stateless page cursors taken from the Link header, so next() works on any worker and after a replay.
Errors: Ably errors reach the workflow as an ApplicationFailure of type AblyError, retryable only for 5xx, 408 and 429. getAblyErrorDetails returns the code, status, message and remediation.
Push: push admin calls use the caller's retry policy. The docs say what a retry of each non-idempotent call does, and how to run them with a single attempt.
Docs and records
docs/temporal.md is the user guide.
TEMPORAL_PLUGIN_DECISIONS.md is the implementation decision log, including the server behaviour observed on the sandbox.
AITDR-036-temporal-rest-plugin.md is an earlier local draft of the decision record. The Confluence page above supersedes it. In particular, it recommends a separate @ably/temporal package, while the live DR recommends the subpath exports this PR implements.
Tests
npm run test:temporal:unit: 124 passing. These test the activities against a mocked HTTP client.
npm run test:temporal:workflow: 35 passing. These run workflows in a local Temporal test environment against stub activities, covering replay, ID derivation, pagination, retry policies and errors.
npm run test:temporal:integration: 26 passing. These run workflows against the Ably sandbox, including checks that Ably deduplicates retried publishes, updates, deletes and annotations.
.github/workflows/test-temporal.yml runs all three suites in CI.
This is a prototype for discussion, not for merging as it is.
This pull request adds Temporal worker and workflow entry points for Ably HTTP operations. It provides activity handlers and workflow APIs for messaging, presence, objects, annotations, push, and requests. It also adds wire conversion, error and retry handling, idempotency support, package exports, build support, documentation, and tests.
Changes
Temporal Plugin
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Summary
Shared activity contracts and wire conversion packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/common/*, packages/core-impl/test/temporal/unit/wire.test.ts
Defines activity names and types, Ably error details, and helpers for copying wire values, handling binary data, and mapping LiveObjects bytes.
Worker registration and activity execution packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/*, packages/core-impl/test/temporal/unit/worker-*
Adds the worker plugin and activity handlers for Ably operations. Handlers manage channel leases, convert values, and map Ably errors to Temporal failures.
Workflow invocation and shared behavior packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/workflow/invoker.ts, arguments.ts, failure.ts, paginated.ts, packages/core-impl/test/temporal/temporal-test-helpers.ts
Adds Temporal bundles, declaration generation, package subpaths, optional Temporal peer dependencies, TypeScript configuration, documentation, test commands, and CI coverage. The integration tests exercise Temporal operations against local workers and an Ably sandbox.
sequenceDiagram
participant TemporalWorkflow
participant ActivityInvoker
participant TemporalWorker
participant AblyHttpClient
TemporalWorkflow->>ActivityInvoker: invoke an activity
ActivityInvoker->>TemporalWorker: schedule activity with wire arguments
TemporalWorker->>AblyHttpClient: execute Ably operation
AblyHttpClient-->>TemporalWorker: return operation result
TemporalWorker-->>TemporalWorkflow: return activity result
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Possibly related PRs
ably/ably-pubsub-js#2332: Updates the supported Node.js versions and CI matrix, which overlap with the Temporal workflow’s Node.js versions.
ably/ably-pubsub-js#2335: Documents build artifacts, connected to the Temporal bundles and artifact listing added here.
ably/ably-pubsub-js#2330: Adds deterministic IDs for REST annotations and batch publishing, operations this pull request wraps in Temporal activities.
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Resolve the authentication retry behavior before merging, along with the outstanding channel and object-operation concerns. Correct the pagination and retry guidance so users can interpret activity behavior accurately.
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A rabbit checks the worker’s queue, While workflow calls pass safely through. IDs stay steady when retries start, Bytes cross the boundary, part by part. Pages hop onward, links in tow, And Temporal helps the messages go.
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Minor · Reject app activities that use an Ably activity name. · plugin.ts:40-44
packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/plugin.ts:40-44 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Reject app activities that use an Ably activity name.
SimplePlugin merges plugin activities over application activities. An application activity named ably.channel.publish can therefore be silently replaced by the plugin activity.
The collision check is a valid localized correction. Import ActivityNames from ../common/activities.js, not ./activities.js.
Suggested fix
+import type { WorkerOptions } from '@temporalio/worker';
import type * as Ably from '@ably/pubsub-core/api';
import { SimplePlugin } from '@temporalio/plugin';
-import { createActivities } from './activities.js';+import { ActivityNames } from '../common/activities.js';+import { createActivities } from './activities.js';
...
this.client = client;
}
++ configureWorker(options: WorkerOptions): WorkerOptions {+ const existing = (options.activities ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;+ for (const name of Object.values(ActivityNames)) {+ if (name in existing) {+ throw new TypeError(`Activity name ${name} is reserved for AblyHttpPlugin.`);+ }+ }+ return super.configureWorker(options);+ }
}
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Review comment at @packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/plugin.ts
around lines 40 - 44:
Add a collision check to AblyHttpPlugin.configureWorker before delegating to
SimplePlugin, rejecting application activities whose names appear in
ActivityNames; import ActivityNames from ../common/activities.js.
After admin.deviceRegistrations.remove(device.id), list registrations by deviceId and assert that the result is empty. The current assertion checks only channel subscriptions, so a no-op device removal could pass.
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Review comment at @packages/core-impl/test/temporal/integration/sandbox.test.ts
at line 782:
After admin.deviceRegistrations.remove(device.id), list device registrations
filtered by deviceId and assert the result is empty; retain the existing
channel-subscription assertion.
After sandboxPresenceAndStatus publishes activate, require result.status.status.isActive to equal true. The current boolean assertion also accepts an incorrect false result.
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Review comment at @packages/core-impl/test/temporal/integration/sandbox.test.ts
at line 825:
Update the assertion in the sandboxPresenceAndStatus test to require
result.status.status.isActive to equal true after publishing activate, rather
than merely checking that it is a boolean.
runTwice invokes the activity directly twice, so it does not exercise Temporal retry scheduling. Add a workflow test that returns HTTP 429 on the first attempt and succeeds on the second attempt. Assert the successful result and activity.attempt === 2.
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at line 203:
Add a workflow-level HTTP 429 retry test using the existing Temporal test
harness instead of calling the activity directly through runTwice. Make the
first activity attempt return HTTP 429 and the retry succeed, then assert the
successful result and that activity.attempt is 2.
823-823: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Assert a populated presence member.
The workflow calls channel.presence.get() and returns its items, but the integration test uses an empty channel. Enter a member on the same channel before executing the workflow, then assert that member's identity and data. The current assertion would also pass if the presence wrapper always returned an empty page.
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at line 823:
Update the integration test around the workflow’s presence.get() call to enter a
member on the same channel before executing the workflow. Replace the empty-page
assertion with checks that the returned presence items contain that member’s
identity and data.
Cover the real worker outcome for a serial-free getMessage.
The proxy test checks only that { data: 'no serial' } is forwarded. Add a real-worker assertion that this input produces the non-retryable 40003 failure from HttpChannelMixin.getMessage.
The current implementation throws ErrorInfo with status 400, so the TypeError and unbounded-retry claims do not apply.
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around lines 352 - 358:
Extend serialArguments to assert that a real-worker call to getMessage without a
serial fails with non-retryable error 40003 from HttpChannelMixin.getMessage,
using the existing worker error-assertion pattern.
430-455: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Add an ambiguous-success append test.
The current test returns 200 for the append and checks only the request body and versionSerial. Add a scenario that applies the append, loses the response through a retryable failure, retries, and checks the final message content. Assert the documented retry result, including duplicated content if append retries are at-least-once; do not assume deduplication.
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lines 430 - 455:
Extend the e2eMessageOperations test with a separate append scenario where the
first append is applied but its response is lost through a retryable failure,
then verify the retry outcome and final message content. Assert the documented
at-least-once behavior, including duplicated appended content when applicable;
do not assume deduplication.
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The static getRandomStream import may make the module fail to bundle or load against a Temporal version without that export, before messageIdStream can perform its intended compatibility check.
The workflow entry point cannot load, including for calls that never generate IDs.
This can occur when: A worker uses an older Temporal version while idempotent publishing is disabled or while expecting the documented upgrade error at first use.
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Review comments at @docs/temporal.md:
- Line 107: Update the Temporal activity naming guidance to reserve the `ably.`
prefix for plugin activities; tell users not to use that prefix for their own
activities.
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/activities.ts:
- Around line 301-308: Update ChannelLeases.release so ending an activity does
not remove a channel that application code obtained through client.channels.get
during the lease. Track application access or otherwise detect it, and skip
client.channels.release for that channel while preserving cleanup for channels
used only by the activity.
- Around line 286-293: Update ChannelLeases.acquire to reuse a cached lease only
when its channel still matches client.channels.all[name]; otherwise discard it
and acquire the current channel. In release, delete the cached entry only if it
still refers to the lease being released, preserving any newer lease for the
same name.
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/errors.ts:
- Around line 42-44: Update isRetryable so TOKEN_CALLBACK_ERROR_CODE alone does
not make every 40170 error retryable; restrict retries to transient
authentication failures while ensuring permanent authUrl and authCallback
failures, such as unacceptable Content-Type or oversized tokens, are not
retried.
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/plugin.ts:
- Around line 57-64: Update validateClient to reject clients missing any members
used by the activities: require time, batchPublish, and batchPresence to be
functions, and require push.admin to be present. Preserve the existing
channels.get, request, and connection checks so invalid clients fail during
construction with the documented TypeError.
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/workflow/object.ts:
- Around line 81-92: Update `publish` to normalize `op` into `list` first, then
call `requireObject` for every operation in `list` before `assignMessageIds`
runs. Preserve validation of a single operation and reject invalid array members
in workflow code.
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/test/temporal/integration/sandbox.test.ts:
- Around line 138-139: Update teardownSandbox() so env?.teardown() always runs
after worker.shutdown(), including when Promise.all(workerRuns) rejects; place
the environment teardown in a finally path while preserving the existing worker
shutdown and Ably cleanup behavior.
Review comments at @packages/server/package.json:
- Around line 81-82: Update the @temporalio/workflow peer dependency range in
the package metadata to require version >=1.18.0 and <2.0.0, keeping the
@temporalio/plugin entry unchanged.
---
Minor comments:
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal/src/worker/plugin.ts:
- Around line 40-44: Add a collision check to AblyHttpPlugin.configureWorker
before delegating to SimplePlugin, rejecting application activities whose names
appear in ActivityNames; import ActivityNames from ../common/activities.js.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/test/temporal/integration/sandbox.test.ts:
- Line 782: After admin.deviceRegistrations.remove(device.id), list device
registrations filtered by deviceId and assert the result is empty; retain the
existing channel-subscription assertion.
- Line 825: Update the assertion in the sandboxPresenceAndStatus test to require
result.status.status.isActive to equal true after publishing activate, rather
than merely checking that it is a boolean.
- Line 203: Add a workflow-level HTTP 429 retry test using the existing Temporal
test harness instead of calling the activity directly through runTwice. Make the
first activity attempt return HTTP 429 and the retry succeed, then assert the
successful result and that activity.attempt is 2.
- Line 823: Update the integration test around the workflow’s presence.get()
call to enter a member on the same channel before executing the workflow.
Replace the empty-page assertion with checks that the returned presence items
contain that member’s identity and data.
Review comments at @packages/core-impl/test/temporal/workflow/e2e.test.ts:
- Around line 430-455: Extend the e2eMessageOperations test with a separate
append scenario where the first append is applied but its response is lost
through a retryable failure, then verify the retry outcome and final message
content. Assert the documented at-least-once behavior, including duplicated
appended content when applicable; do not assume deduplication.
Review comments at
@packages/core-impl/test/temporal/workflow/workflows/index.ts:
- Around line 352-358: Extend serialArguments to assert that a real-worker call
to getMessage without a serial fails with non-retryable error 40003 from
HttpChannelMixin.getMessage, using the existing worker error-assertion pattern.
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Keep application-obtained channels in the registry when a lease ends.
ChannelLeases.release removes a channel the activity added when the registry still holds that instance. If application code calls client.channels.get for the same channel during the activity, it receives that instance, so the removal drops a channel the application still holds. Track application access, or skip the release for such channels.
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301 - 308:
Update ChannelLeases.release so ending an activity does not remove a channel
that application code obtained through client.channels.get during the lease.
Track application access or otherwise detect it, and skip
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Retry only transient auth failures, not every code 40170 error.
isRetryable treats every code 40170 error as retryable (errors.ts:43). The SDK also reports permanent authUrl and authCallback failures as 40170, including an unacceptable Content-Type or an oversized token (auth.ts:512-554, auth.ts:716-751). The default retry policy retries these without limit.
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Update isRetryable so TOKEN_CALLBACK_ERROR_CODE alone does not make every 40170
error retryable; restrict retries to transient authentication failures while
ensuring permanent authUrl and authCallback failures, such as unacceptable
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Questions:
Why do we need to share an Ably Client between hand-rolled activities and the plugin? -- by sharing the client we end up with two problems:
The channel lease counting isn't safe if a channel was used by a hand-rolled activity
The channel options on channel.get(...) aren't safe if the channel was used by a hand-rolled activity
Should non-idempotent ably calls require idempotentPublishing: false explicity, and allow that field per-operation, not just per client?
All the publishes are idempotent except for live objects create or wildcard mixed with other live object operations, and appends.. both of these just silently remove the idempotent publishing that all the other operations add in. I can see that as useful/acceptable for append, but I'm not sure about the liveobjects combo operations. What if we made it a programming error if someone does that without setting idempotentPublishing: false on that specific operation?
Can we use ably-js encoding between worker and activity instead of custom encoding?
Right now, to transmit the payloads of operations between the workflow and the activity we use a custom encoding scheme based around __ablyTemporalBinary and __ablyTemporalEscaped keys. But ably-js already has an encoding sheme based around base64 data and the encoding field.
channel.publish('thumbnail',newUint8Array([0x89,0x50,0x4e,0x47]))// in the current code creates: {name: 'thumbnail',data: {__ablyTemporalBinary: 'iVBORw=='}}// using ably-js encoding could create{name: 'thumbnail',data: 'iVBORw==',encoding: 'base64'}
this probably also means that we can send that data directly to ably without needing to decode the json payload. This would work for message.data, presence.data, and annotation.data. For liveObjects operation bytes I don't think we have a problem because these are already base64/can't collide with strings because the data structure already says they are bytes, and for request(...) we can make it the workflow/callers responsibility to create the correct format and we don't change the payload.
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I think summary should come last? because otherwise someone who sets summary field on localActivityOptions or activityOptions is going to see the same summary in the temporal UI for every acitivty
Add @ably/pubsub-server/temporal, a Temporal worker plugin that runs Ably
REST calls as activities, and @ably/pubsub-server/temporal/workflow, a
TemporalRest client that mirrors the PubSubHttpClient in workflow code.
- Derive idempotency keys in the workflow from a named random stream:
message IDs for publish and batchPublish, idempotencyKey for updateMessage
and deleteMessage, annotation IDs, and LiveObjects operation IDs
- Keep paginated results as page cursors from the Link header
- Release channels the activities add once no activity is using them, and
take channel options such as cipher from a channelOptions(name) plugin option
- Wrap push.admin, sending push notifications with a single attempt unless
retryPushNotifications is set
- Map Ably errors to ApplicationFailure of type AblyError, retrying only
transient ones
- Keep the source in packages/core-impl/src/platform/temporal, bundle both
entry points into @ably/pubsub-server with esbuild, emit their
declarations with tsc, and make the @temporalio packages optional peer
dependencies of @ably/pubsub-server
- Add unit, workflow and Ably sandbox tests, and a CI workflow
- Add docs/temporal.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Push notification calls are not deduplicated by Ably, but a single
Temporal attempt is not at-most-once either, since ably-js resends to
fallback hosts within an attempt. Use the caller's retry policy for
every push admin call, document what a retry of each one does, and
show how to run them with a single attempt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rename TemporalRest and its related workflow-side classes and types to
start with TemporalAbly, so the name says it is an Ably REST client that
runs in a Temporal workflow rather than a REST client for Temporal. This
matches AblyRestPlugin on the worker side and the AITDR-037 samples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
AblyRestPlugin takes a required `client: PubSubHttpClient`, which the
application creates with createHttpClient from @ably/pubsub-server,
instead of optionally taking ClientOptions to create one itself.
Developers configure the client from the Ably docs as they would anywhere
else, LiveObjects is set up by creating the client with
`plugins: { LiveObjects }`, and the shape matches other languages such as
Go, where the plugin takes a concrete client type.
The worker entry point now imports only types from the Ably SDK, so its
bundle no longer imports @ably/pubsub-server. The plugin throws a
TypeError, with a remediation, if `client` is not a PubSubHttpClient,
including when it is a realtime client from createRealtimeClient. The
docs, README, tests and decision log (new decision 28, updated 18, 21
and 22) are updated to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The worker plugin is now AblyHttpPlugin (options AblyHttpPluginOptions,
Temporal plugin name 'AblyHttpPlugin'), and the workflow client is
TemporalAblyHttpClient (options TemporalAblyHttpClientOptions), with
TemporalAblyHttpChannels, TemporalAblyHttpChannel, TemporalAblyHttpPresence,
TemporalAblyHttpAnnotations, TemporalAblyHttpObject and the
TemporalAblyHttpPush* classes. The workflow client source moves to
workflow/client.ts. Activity names and the paginated result types are
unchanged, and there are no aliases for the old names.
The SDK names the REST client the HTTP client (PDR-091d: PubSubHttpClient
in @ably/pubsub-server, HTTPClient in Go), so the plugin follows that naming,
and the names carry over to Go. Decision 27 in the decision log records this.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Give the deduplication window as 130 to 150 seconds, and describe the
limits of deduplication: a new channel epoch, mutable-messages
namespaces and server-side batching. Correct what a retry of each push
call does, and describe retry behaviour without client-side
workarounds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Encrypted channels are not supported in v1. cipher is the only channel
option with an effect on REST, and a worker-side per-name callback can be
added later without a breaking change if someone needs it.
channels.get() in workflow code still throws if it is passed channel
options, so a caller cannot publish plain text by mistake. The activities
still release the channels they add.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow AITDR-037: the plugin records only temporalNamespace,
temporalWorkflowId and temporalRunId, in extras.headers for publish and
batchPublish and in operation.metadata for update, delete and append.
temporalWorkflowType, temporalActivityId and temporalAttempt are dropped
from TemporalMetadataKeys, TemporalMetadata and the values sent.
No field differs between attempts, so every attempt of a call now sends
the same content. The tests assert that a retry is identical to the
first attempt, and the sandbox dedupe tests use a header of their own
to show that Ably dedupes on the ID alone. The docs and the decision
log describe the three fields, the reasons for leaving the others out
and the new size estimate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docs no longer suggest a single-attempt client for push calls or an
ID in a notification's data, which the design does not recommend. Also
corrects the dedupe window in object.publish and lists
@temporalio/common as a requirement of @ably/pubsub-server/temporal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Messages and message operations now carry temporalActivityId alongside
the namespace, workflow ID and run ID. Each call is one activity, so the
run ID and activity ID identify the call that sent a message, including
a retried append, which Ably does not deduplicate. The activity ID is the
same on every attempt, so a retry still sends the same content.
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Update the Temporal plugin docs, the README section and the decision log
for the plugin's place in @ably/pubsub-server: it takes the
PubSubHttpClient from createHttpClient, requires Node.js 22 like the rest
of the package, and is bundled with esbuild alongside the package's other
entry points. The decision log records the packaging, the LiveObjects
type augmentation, why check:packages leaves the plugin to its own
tsconfig, the realtime client check, and the checks run on this state.
The HTTP client's push has no device methods, so the docs no longer list
them as unsupported.
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The activities send the workflow's messages and its update, delete and
append operations as given, without adding Temporal headers or operation
metadata. This drops the `temporalMetadata` option from AblyHttpPlugin and
createActivities, along with CreateActivitiesOptions, TemporalMetadataKeys
and TemporalMetadata. The tests now check that messages and operations are
sent unchanged, and the docs and decision 11 describe this behaviour.
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The esbuild-plugin-umd-wrapper git dependency builds its dist/ in its
prepare script, which npm 11 (Node 24) skips under --ignore-scripts.
Run a plain npm ci, as the other workflows do.
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Rebuild package-lock.json from main's copy, adding only the @temporalio/*
1.24.0 packages and the dependencies they need. source-map-explorer and
ts-loader keep their nested source-map 0.7.4, which source-map-explorer
needs to read the CDN bundle's source map.
@temporalio/worker depends on webpack ^5.108.4, so webpack moves to
5.112.2, with the minimizer-webpack-plugin, terser, enhanced-resolve,
schema-utils, ajv-formats, watchpack and webpack-sources versions it
requires.
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Review point (zknill): the plugin shared the application's client. The
activities get channels from client.channels and release the ones they
added, and channels.get(name, options) changes the options of an
existing channel. So an application activity that got a channel with a
cipher while a plugin activity held it received the plugin's channel,
lost it when the plugin released it, and the plugin's own publishes
could pick up the application's channel options, which workflow code
does not support.
AblyHttpPlugin now takes clientOptions and creates its own client with
createHttpClient, imported from the package root so the Temporal bundle
still contains none of the Pub/Sub implementation. The client option,
plugin.client and the realtime-client check are removed. createActivities
stays public, documented as needing a client that only the activities
use, so channel leasing is a plain reference count.
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… cannot be deduplicated
Review point (zknill): object.publish() silently dropped the operation
IDs from the whole call when any operation was a mapCreate or
counterCreate, or had a wildcard path. A caller relying on idempotent
publishing got a call that a retried activity applies again, with no
sign that deduplication was off.
With idempotent publishing in effect and no operation carrying its own
id, such a call now throws a non-retryable AblyError (40003) from
workflow code, saying why Ably cannot deduplicate it and how to opt out.
object.publish() takes a second argument, TemporalAblyHttpObjectPublishOptions,
whose idempotentPublishing overrides the client option for that call;
false publishes the operations as they are. The tests, sandbox workflows
and docs pass the opt-out where they publish these operations.
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…encoding
Review point (zknill): binary values crossed the activity boundary as
plugin-specific __ablyTemporalBinary objects, with an escape tag for
values that looked like them. That format showed up in the Temporal UI
and workflow history, and duplicated what Ably's own protocol already
defines.
The data of a message, presence message or annotation now travels as a
base64 string with base64 appended to its encoding (RSL4d1), which the
worker passes to Ably as it is, and results carry message data the same
way, decoded back to Uint8Array in the workflow, so the workflow-facing
API is unchanged. LiveObjects bytes travel as base64 strings and are
turned back into Buffers before publishing. Binary data anywhere else in
an activity's arguments throws a non-retryable AblyError naming where it
is; binary data anywhere else in a result, such as a compact object.get()
or a MessagePack request() response, is returned as a base64 string. The
tags, the escape mechanism and toNodeBuffers are removed.
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Review point (zknill): the docs described the deduplication window as at
least 130 seconds and up to about 150 seconds, but Ably guarantees a
2-minute window. The object.publish() docs and the retry guidance now
say 2 minutes, and the retry arithmetic is stated against it: the 127
seconds of waits before the eighth attempt mean that attempt always
falls outside the window.
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Review point (zknill): the summary was spread before the caller's
activity options, so a summary set in activityOptions or
localActivityOptions replaced the per-call summary that names the
operation and channel, giving every Ably activity the same label in the
Temporal UI.
The per-call summary is now applied last, and both options are typed
without summary. The JSDoc, docs and the proxy test, which now checks
that a summary passed by bypassing the types is ignored, are updated.
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- Docs and ActivityNames/AblyHttpPlugin docstrings: the worker merges the
plugin's activities over its own, so an app activity named ably.* is
replaced. Tell users not to use the ably. prefix.
- Require @temporalio/workflow >=1.18.0 <2.0.0 as a peer dependency, as
idempotent publishing needs getRandomStream.
- object.publish() validates every member of an operations array with
requireObject before the deduplication check, with a workflow test for a
null member.
- Docs: with idempotent publishing off, calls that carry their own IDs or
idempotency keys are still deduplicated.
- Sandbox integration test: nest try/finally so env.teardown() and
teardownSandbox() always run.
- Warn in the publish() JSDoc and docs that a create with a caller-set id
can return objectIds naming an object that does not exist on a retry.
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…ations
With idempotentRestPublishing, ably-js assigns IDs to batchPublish() specs
whose messages have none, and to annotations. The MessagePack batchPublish
unit test now asserts on the data and encoding it covers, as the publish
tests do, rather than on the whole message. The docs on turning off
idempotent publishing now say which IDs the worker's Ably client assigns,
and that Ably deduplicates its fallback host retries of those requests.
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Document relation-specific page summaries.
first(), current(), and next() use different summaries. The UI shows (first page), (current page), or (next page) based on the requested relation. Update the table to reflect these values. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the page-results row in the table to document the distinct UI summaries
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Temporal retries an activity that fails. A retry only repeats a call when Ably accepted an earlier attempt's request but the activity did not get its response, because the response was lost, the request timed out, or the worker crashed while waiting for it. The plugin sends each call so that Ably deduplicates such a retry where Ably supports it. This section describes what a retry of each call does.
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Separate activity retries from duplicate side effects.
Temporal retries any failure allowed by the retry policy, including retryable network and 5xx failures. This sentence describes only the ambiguous case where Ably accepted the request but the response was lost. Reword it to distinguish activity re-execution from a possible duplicate side effect. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Reword the retry description in the section beginning “Temporal retries an
activity” to distinguish activity re-execution, which can follow any failure
allowed by the retry policy, from duplicate side effects, which are possible
when Ably accepted a request but its response was lost or the outcome was
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A prototype of the Temporal REST plugin described in AITRFC-029, following the design in AITDR-037: Temporal Ably REST plugin design.
It ships as two subpath exports of
ably:ably/temporal:AblyRestPlugin, a Temporal worker plugin that owns one long-livedAbly.Restclient and registers an activity for each wrapped REST operation.ably/temporal/workflow:TemporalRest, which mirrorsAbly.Restfor workflow code. Each call runs as an activity namedably.<method>.What's covered
object.get/publish,batchPublish,batchPresence,request,time, and all ofpush.admin.ably.temporal.messageIds), so a retried activity or a replay sends the same IDs. Calls that already have IDs are sent as they are.Linkheader, sonext()works on any worker and after a replay.ApplicationFailureof typeAblyError, retryable only for 5xx, 408 and 429.getAblyErrorDetailsreturns the code, status, message and remediation.Docs and records
docs/temporal.mdis the user guide.TEMPORAL_PLUGIN_DECISIONS.mdis the implementation decision log, including the server behaviour observed on the sandbox.AITDR-036-temporal-rest-plugin.mdis an earlier local draft of the decision record. The Confluence page above supersedes it. In particular, it recommends a separate@ably/temporalpackage, while the live DR recommends the subpath exports this PR implements.Tests
npm run test:temporal:unit: 124 passing. These test the activities against a mocked HTTP client.npm run test:temporal:workflow: 35 passing. These run workflows in a local Temporal test environment against stub activities, covering replay, ID derivation, pagination, retry policies and errors.npm run test:temporal:integration: 26 passing. These run workflows against the Ably sandbox, including checks that Ably deduplicates retried publishes, updates, deletes and annotations..github/workflows/test-temporal.ymlruns all three suites in CI.This is a prototype for discussion, not for merging as it is.
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