Class: WorkflowClient

client.WorkflowClient

Client for starting Workflow executions and creating Workflow handles.

Typically this client should not be instantiated directly, instead create the high level Client and use Client.workflow to interact with Workflows.

Hierarchy

• BaseClient

  ↳ WorkflowClient

  ↳↳ TimeSkippingWorkflowClient

Constructors

constructor

• new WorkflowClient(options?): WorkflowClient

Parameters

Name	Type
options?	WorkflowClientOptions

Returns

WorkflowClient

Overrides

BaseClient.constructor

Properties

connection

• Readonly connection: ConnectionLike

The underlying connection used by this client.

Clients are cheap to create, but connections are expensive. Where that make sense, a single connection may and should be reused by multiple Client.

Inherited from

BaseClient.connection

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options

• Readonly options: LoadedWorkflowClientOptions

Accessors

workflowService

• get workflowService(): WorkflowService

Raw gRPC access to the Temporal service.

NOTE: The namespace provided in options is not automatically set on requests made via this service object.

Returns

WorkflowService

Methods

execute

▸ execute<T>(workflowTypeOrFunc, options): Promise<WorkflowResultType<T>>

Starts a new Workflow execution and awaits its completion.

Type parameters

Name	Type
T	extends Workflow

Parameters

Name	Type
workflowTypeOrFunc	string | T
options	WorkflowStartOptions<T>

Returns

Promise<WorkflowResultType<T>>

the result of the Workflow execution

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getHandle

▸ getHandle<T>(workflowId, runId?, options?): WorkflowHandle<T>

Create a handle to an existing Workflow.

• If only workflowId is passed, and there are multiple Workflow Executions with that ID, the handle will refer to the most recent one.
• If workflowId and runId are passed, the handle will refer to the specific Workflow Execution with that Run ID.
• If workflowId and GetWorkflowHandleOptions.firstExecutionRunId are passed, the handle will refer to the most recent Workflow Execution in the Chain that started with firstExecutionRunId.

A Chain is a series of Workflow Executions that share the same Workflow ID and are connected by:

• Being part of the same Cron
• Continue As New
• Retries

This method does not validate workflowId. If there is no Workflow Execution with the given workflowId, handle methods like handle.describe() will throw a WorkflowNotFoundError error.

Type parameters

Name	Type
T	extends Workflow

Parameters

Name	Type
workflowId	string
runId?	string
options?	GetWorkflowHandleOptions

Returns

WorkflowHandle<T>

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list

▸ list(options?): AsyncWorkflowListIterable

List workflows by given query.

⚠️ To use advanced query functionality, as of the 1.18 server release, you must use Elasticsearch based visibility.

More info on the concept of "visibility" and the query syntax on the Temporal documentation site: https://docs.temporal.io/visibility

Parameters

Name	Type
options?	ListOptions

Returns

AsyncWorkflowListIterable

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result

▸ result<T>(workflowId, runId?, opts?): Promise<WorkflowResultType<T>>

Gets the result of a Workflow execution.

Follows the chain of execution in case Workflow continues as new, or has a cron schedule or retry policy.

Type parameters

Name	Type
T	extends Workflow

Parameters

Name	Type
workflowId	string
runId?	string
opts?	WorkflowResultOptions

Returns

Promise<WorkflowResultType<T>>

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signalWithStart

▸ signalWithStart<WorkflowFn, SignalArgs>(workflowTypeOrFunc, options): Promise<WorkflowHandleWithSignaledRunId<WorkflowFn>>

Sends a Signal to a running Workflow or starts a new one if not already running and immediately Signals it. Useful when you're unsure whether the Workflow has been started.

Type parameters

Name	Type
WorkflowFn	extends Workflow
SignalArgs	extends any[] = []

Parameters

Name	Type
workflowTypeOrFunc	string | WorkflowFn
options	WithWorkflowArgs<WorkflowFn, WorkflowSignalWithStartOptions<SignalArgs>>

Returns

Promise<WorkflowHandleWithSignaledRunId<WorkflowFn>>

a WorkflowHandle to the started Workflow

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start

▸ start<T>(workflowTypeOrFunc, options): Promise<WorkflowHandleWithFirstExecutionRunId<T>>

Start a new Workflow execution.

Type parameters

Name	Type
T	extends Workflow

Parameters

Name	Type
workflowTypeOrFunc	string | T
options	WorkflowStartOptions<T>

Returns

Promise<WorkflowHandleWithFirstExecutionRunId<T>>

a WorkflowHandle to the started Workflow

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withAbortSignal

▸ withAbortSignal<R>(abortSignal, fn): Promise<R>

Set an AbortSignal that, when aborted, cancels any ongoing service requests executed in fn's scope. This will locally result in the request call throwing a _grpc.ServiceError|ServiceError with code _grpc.status.CANCELLED|CANCELLED.

This method is only a convenience wrapper around Connection.withAbortSignal.

Type parameters

Name
R

Parameters

Name	Type
abortSignal	AbortSignal
fn	() => Promise<R>

Returns

Promise<R>

value returned from fn

See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AbortSignal

Inherited from

BaseClient.withAbortSignal

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withDeadline

▸ withDeadline<R>(deadline, fn): Promise<R>

Set a deadline for any service requests executed in fn's scope.

The deadline is a point in time after which any pending gRPC request will be considered as failed; this will locally result in the request call throwing a _grpc.ServiceError|ServiceError with code _grpc.status.DEADLINE_EXCEEDED|DEADLINE_EXCEEDED.

It is stronly recommended to explicitly set deadlines. If no deadline is set, then it is possible for the client to end up waiting forever for a response.

This method is only a convenience wrapper around Connection.withDeadline.

Type parameters

Name
R

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
deadline	number | Date	a point in time after which the request will be considered as failed; either a Date object, or a number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch (UTC).
fn	() => Promise<R>	-

Returns

Promise<R>

the value returned from fn

See

https://grpc.io/docs/guides/deadlines/

Inherited from

BaseClient.withDeadline

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withMetadata

▸ withMetadata<R>(metadata, fn): Promise<R>

Set metadata for any service requests executed in fn's scope.

This method is only a convenience wrapper around Connection.withMetadata.

Type parameters

Name
R

Parameters

Name	Type
metadata	Metadata
fn	() => Promise<R>

Returns

Promise<R>

returned value of fn

Inherited from

BaseClient.withMetadata