A go snippet showing how to handle a hard timeout with Temporal.io

hard-timeout.go

func Workflow(ctx workflow.Context, details PaymentDetails) error {
	ao := workflow.ActivityOptions{
		StartToCloseTimeout: 10 * time.Second		// This is the X seconds limit, currently set to 10 seconds
	}
	ctx = workflow.WithActivityOptions(ctx, ao)

	var result string
	err := workflow.ExecuteActivity(ctx, ProcessPaymentActivity, details).Get(ctx, &result)

	if err != nil {
    // If we exhausted retries or hit a non-retryable error
		var timeoutErr *temporal.ApplicationError // or TimeoutError depending on SDK version
		if errors.As(err, &timeoutErr) {
			// Handle the timeout logic here, such as cleaning up
            return err
		}
		return err
	}

	return nil
}