Clarity on client thread safety and sync activity cancel #189
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bergundy
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| react appropriately. An activity must heartbeat to receive cancellation and there are other ways to be notified about | ||
| cancellation (see "Activity Context" and "Heartbeating and Cancellation" later). | ||
| react appropriately. If after cancellation is obtained an unwrapped `temporalio.exceptions.CancelledError` is raised, | ||
| the activity will be marked cancelled. An activity must heartbeat to receive cancellation and there are other ways to be |
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Should we mention heartbeating only applies to non-local activities?
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Maybe. It seems most of our documents don't make this differentiation, e.g. https://docs.temporal.io/application-development/features#activity-heartbeats. Note that doesn't say a thing about "local" wrt heartbeats. Hopefully this doc is removed in favor of that one. Let's try to get it right there.
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CancelledErrorto have an activity appear as cancelled (we are still discussing internally if we can do this better)Checklist