🏚️ Local Activities

[Spikhalskiy]

Description

Improve Local Activities support.

Core Objectives

Local Activities in JavaSDK are lacking some features and enforcements that users expect and this Epic covers this area.

Bugs

• Error in a local activity should fail the WorkflowTask instead of failing an activity execution #1533
• Unregistered Local Activity should fail Workflow Task #1561

Tasks

• Local Activity Worker ignores startToClose and scheduleToClose timeouts #1004
• Local Activities fail and don't retry after reaching LocalRetryThreshold #1261
• Await on Local Activities shouldn't occupy workflow executor thread #1346 and relevant problem report Query is not picked up by the worker executing local activity for more than a minute #1246
• Cancelation of Local Activities #1303
• Add scheduleToStart to LocalActivityOptions #1512
• Local Activity Execution should stop making attempts if Workflow Task or subsequent heartbeat fails #1563