Open richardweaver opened 3 years ago
Hi @richardweaver,
Thank you for reaching out! This is an interesting use-case. I think this isn't a bug, just a currently unsupported use-case, but this would be good to have! I can investigate ways to make this happen during our next sprint, although that might take a few weeks since our current sprint just started.
In the meantime, I do want to provide you with a workaround. Technically, the orchestrator function could pass, as input to their activities, their instanceID. I believe the context
object of the orchestrator function has an instanceID
property as defined here. So, while we investigate adding this functionality, would this workaround satisfy your use-case?
Thanks! ⚡ ⚡
Thanks, yes I'd worked out that I can pass the orchestration ID as part of the input to activities. It's just a bit repetitive to do (I have about 20 functions that need to take this input) and I guess I'd just assumed that as an activity function is intrinsically a "child" of an orchestrator it would be there somewhere.
That's good to hear, I do think your intuition makes sense, and we should probably provide that metadata anyways. As I mentioned, I'll look to prioritizing this in the near future, but I'm glad to hear we at least have a workaround
Describe the bug I have a process that runs on Durable Functions that consists of a couple of Orchestrators, with some Sub-Orchestrators and a series of Activity functions. Within the Activity functions I am writing to Table storage with any data exceptions that can be used as a report. I'd like to group these reports by specifying the parent Orchestrator's InstanceId as the PartitionKey on the table.
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To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Expected behavior Data regarding the calling orderstrator's instanceId and parentInstanceId to be included in the context object, much as it is part of the bindingData for a sub-orchestrator.
Actual behavior Context includes the activity function's invocation ID but nothing related to the parent orchestrator,
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