REPL hot-reload for workers#88
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Without this exclusion, this is the error that is shown every time temporal.workflow is loaded: WARNING: await already refers to: #'clojure.core/await in namespace: temporal.workflow, being replaced by: #'temporal.workflow/await Signed-off-by: Александар Симић <a@repl.ist>
Workers used to capture activity and workflow function values when they started, which meant re-evaluating a definition at the REPL had no effect until the worker was restarted. Also requested here: manetu#72 Add opt-in hot reload flags that keep dispatch entries linked to vars and resolve them when work is executed. This lets activity changes, and optionally workflow changes, be picked up by a running worker during development. Workflow hot reload remains explicit because workflow code changes can affect replay determinism. Signed-off-by: Александар Симић <a@repl.ist>
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Great, this will make my life much better. Thanks Alex :)
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Two things that make REPLing a bit nicer
1. Silences the clojure.core/await warning
The SDK only ever uses its own
temporal.workflow/await.2. Hot reload, this is the real change in this PR
Adds two opt-in flags that store dispatch entries as Vars and deref them at execution time instead:
Re-evaluate a defactivity and the running worker picks it up immediately. Workflow hot reload is available too but marked as dev-only since workflow changes can mess with replay determinism.
Also closes #72