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Re-architects workflow management so the ICP needs no network path into the integration — and none into its Temporal server, which stays local to the integration as it always did — replacing the callback-URL proxy (which required a management REST API, an API key, and a reachable port on every workflow runtime, and went dark whenever no runtime was up to even list definitions).

  1. Metadata ingestion — full heartbeats carry the new negotiated workflowMetadata document (definitions, human tasks, activities, agents — with JSON schemas) and capabilities, stored in the new bi_workflow_metadata table (one row per runtime, replaced per full heartbeat, ON DELETE CASCADE; the packed-OpenAPI pattern). The GraphQL workflowsByEnvironmentAndComponent resolver reads definitions from the store — they stay available and render launch forms without calling into any runtime. Init-script DDL for all five engines, and the table folded into the existing add_workflow_feature_<engine>.sql migration rather than shipping a second script — the workflow feature and the metadata it publishes are in the same Alpha, so no deployed database sits between them. The migration must be applied before deploying: heartbeat processing deletes the runtime's metadata row before checking whether the heartbeat carries any, so a missing table fails every full heartbeat, MI runtimes included (see migration-scripts/README.md).
  2. Command tunnel — requests to the existing /icp/workflow/{componentId}/{environmentId}/... routes are mapped to a management-operation vocabulary, queued for the scope's leader runtime (freshest RUNNING runtime advertising workflowCommands), delivered inside its next (delta-)heartbeat response as a WORKFLOW_MGMT control command, and answered via the new POST /icp/commandResult endpoint (same kid-JWT validation as heartbeats) — correlated by commandId and the runtime it was issued to, with the runtime's own status and body relayed (the same JSON document, re-serialized — formatting is normalized, values are not). The frontend contract is unchanged. RBAC is identical; the caller's identity (user id + escaped role names) travels in the command so runtime-side human-task authorization keeps working.
  3. Latency — serving a workflow request boosts the leader (nextHeartbeatInSeconds), so operations round-trip in ~1–2s after the first request. The hint decays with idle time — 1s for the first 5s after the last workflow request, then 2s, 5s, 10s, and no hint past 30s — so an integration serving non-workflow traffic returns to its own interval instead of heartbeating every second for two minutes; every workflow request restarts the ramp, so an active session keeps the fastest cadence; waiters time out at 25s (inside the frontend's 30s) with 504; starts get an ICP-generated workflowId so retries are idempotent.
  4. Cutover — the legacy proxy (client cache, API-key reconstruction, TLS knobs, WorkflowTarget, workflowCallbackUrl negotiation) is removed; workflow_proxy_service.balworkflow_service.bal. The Add Runtime snippets drop the management-API block and import — one enableWorkflowManagement = true line remains ("Allow workflow management from ICP"). Old bridges are tolerated but need Publish workflow metadata and execute tunneled workflow management commands (0.3.0) icp-runtime-bridge#44 for workflow features; scopes without a capable runtime get the 503 the frontend already renders as unavailable.

Companions: wso2/icp-runtime-bridge#44 (bridge 0.3.0), ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-workflow#94 (workflow 0.9.0).

Documentation

docs/workflow-command-tunnel.md — the ICP half of the design, alongside the bridge's docs/command-tunnel.md: why the tunnel exists, the round trip as a sequence diagram, runtime selection and capability gating, the wait/timeout budget and what a 504 means, the boost ramp, the security model, how metadata and integration promotion work, the single-instance limits to revisit before HA, and how to add an operation.

Review fixes

  • A posted result was correlated on commandId alone, so any authenticated runtime agent in the organization could answer a command queued for another — and that body is relayed to the console as the operation's result. The queue now records the runtime a command was issued to and refuses a result from anyone else (testResultFromAnotherRuntimeIsRefused).
  • A reported httpStatus was assigned to the response unchecked; an out-of-range value produced a malformed response rather than a diagnosable failure, and now answers 502.
  • A POST body that is not a JSON object was silently replaced with {}, so a mutation went out with its parameters missing and the caller was told what the runtime thought of a missing result or reason instead of that its own request was malformed. Now 400 — while a POST with no body at all still goes through, since several operations take none.
  • Commands are delivered only into an acknowledged response. The bridge discards an unacknowledged one, which would drain the queue while the caller is still blocked. Unreachable today; the guard keeps it from becoming a silent dependency. (The suggested gate on fullHeartbeatRequired would have been wrong — the bridge processes commands on those responses and only defers the flag to the next round.)
  • Test hygiene: alwaysRun: true on both workflow teardowns, the end-to-end test's org secret revoked in teardown rather than accumulating a row per run, and the component fixture the promotion test changes restored in teardown instead of at the end of a later test.

Testing

  • 127 tests green, including a full end-to-end tunnel round trip over real HTTP: a frontend request answered by a simulated bridge that receives the command in a boosted delta-heartbeat response and posts the result back — asserting operation mapping, identity propagation, the boost hint, and faithful body relay.
  • Unit coverage: request→operation mapping (incl. run-pinned routes and idempotent start), waiter timeout + queue cleanup + late-result drop, duplicate-result handling, the boost ramp across every step from 1s down to no hint (idle time injected, so the whole decay is asserted without sleeping), metadata upsert/clear semantics, RBAC boundaries, and GraphQL definitions from stored metadata.
  • Frontend: tsc clean for the touched files (two pre-existing errors on main are untouched); distribution assembles via assembleICP.

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The heartbeat gains the negotiated workflowMetadata field (the workflow
metadata document the ICP runtime bridge publishes: definitions, human
tasks, activities, and durable agents with their JSON schemas) and the
capabilities field (e.g. workflowCommands when the runtime accepts
tunneled management commands). Both land in the new bi_workflow_metadata
table — one row per runtime, replaced on every full heartbeat, removed
with the runtime, exactly the packed-OpenAPI pattern. The server now
advertises workflowMetadata in supportedHeartbeatFields.

The GraphQL workflowsByEnvironmentAndComponent resolver reads definitions
from the stored metadata first — no live call into the integration, and
definitions stay available as long as any RUNNING runtime reported them —
deduping across runtimes (workerCount = declaring runtimes). Components
whose runtimes run an older bridge fall back to the legacy live fetch via
workflowCallbackUrl.

Includes init-script DDL and idempotent migration scripts for all five
supported engines; the migration must be applied before upgrading the
server, since heartbeat processing writes the table unconditionally (see
migration-scripts/README.md).
Workflow management requests are now executed without any network path
into the integration or its Temporal server. A request to the existing
/icp/workflow/{componentId}/{environmentId}/... routes is mapped to the
dot-qualified operation vocabulary (workflow_tunnel.bal), queued for the
component+environment's leader runtime — the freshest-heartbeat RUNNING
runtime that advertised the workflowCommands capability — and delivered
inside its next (delta) heartbeat response as a WORKFLOW_MGMT control
command. The runtime's bridge executes it in-process and posts the
outcome to the new POST /icp/commandResult endpoint (same kid-based JWT
validation as heartbeats), correlated to the waiting request by
commandId; the response body is byte-identical to the runtime's
management REST API, so the frontend contract is unchanged.

Latency: serving a workflow request boosts the target runtime for a
sliding two-minute window — its heartbeat responses carry
nextHeartbeatInSeconds = 1 — so tunneled operations round-trip in ~1-2s
after the first request. Waiters time out after 25s (inside the
frontend's 30s) with a 504; a timed-out command is removed from its
queue and its late result dropped. Starts get an ICP-generated
workflowId when the caller supplied none, keeping retries idempotent.

Compatibility: paths outside the tunnel vocabulary (e.g. the deprecated
/retry-tasks aliases) and runtimes on older bridges fall through to the
legacy callback-URL proxy; commands are only ever queued for runtimes
that advertised the capability, since older bridges fail record binding
on unknown control actions.

Tested end to end over real HTTP: a frontend request answered by a
simulated bridge that receives the command in a boosted delta-heartbeat
response and posts the result back.
With workflow management tunneled over the heartbeat channel, a workflow
runtime no longer hosts a management REST API — so the Add Runtime
snippets stop emitting the [ballerina.workflow.management] block (API
key, header, port) and the workflow.management import: the bridge import
alone wires everything, and the [ballerina.workflow] block keeps only the
task queue. The bridge's enableWorkflowManagement key remains, with its
new meaning: allow the ICP to tunnel management operations to this
runtime. The toggle copy now says what it does ('Allow workflow
management from ICP').

Adds the workflowTunnelEnabled rollout switch (default on): set to false
to force every workflow request through the legacy callback-URL proxy
during a staged rollout or to isolate a tunnel issue.
The heartbeat command tunnel is now the only workflow management path.
Removed: the proxy forwarding via runtimes.callback_url (client cache,
API-key reconstruction, insecure-TLS knob, timeout knob, and the
workflowTunnelEnabled rollout switch), the workflowCallbackUrl heartbeat
field and its supportedHeartbeatFields entry, the WorkflowTarget type,
and the target-resolution storage functions. The callback_url column
stays for schema compatibility but is no longer fed. The service file is
renamed workflow_proxy_service.bal → workflow_service.bal to match what
it now does; routes, RBAC, and the frontend contract are unchanged.
Requests for scopes without a tunnel-capable runtime get the 503 the
frontend already renders as unavailable; paths outside the tunnel
vocabulary (the deprecated /retry-tasks aliases) now 404.

Old bridges that still send workflowCallbackUrl are tolerated (open
record) but their workflow features require upgrading to a bridge that
publishes metadata and executes tunneled commands.
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Summary

  • Replaced callback-based workflow proxying with heartbeat-based command delivery.
  • Persisted workflow metadata and capabilities from heartbeats for GraphQL workflow definitions.
  • Added asynchronous workflow reads and mutations with shared database-backed cache and operation outbox support.
  • Added command-result handling, runtime task-queue scoping, heartbeat scheduling, expiry, fencing, idempotency, and cleanup.
  • Added workflow metadata, cache, and outbox schemas and migrations for H2, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
  • Updated runtime configuration generation and frontend polling and preparation states.
  • Added workflow instance-graph support and expanded metadata and tunnel test coverage.
  • Added system-event persistence with database-specific JSON handling.
  • Documented the workflow command tunnel and required database migration process.

Walkthrough

This change replaces callback-based workflow proxying with an outbound heartbeat command tunnel. Runtime heartbeats now carry workflow metadata, capabilities, and task queues. The server persists this metadata and serves workflow definitions from it. Generic cache and operation-outbox storage supports reads, mutations, result delivery, expiry, and cleanup. The frontend handles server-side preparation states and polls until data is ready. Runtime configuration no longer includes the workflow management API secret or port.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkflowUI
  participant workflow_service
  participant workflow_tunnel
  participant Runtime
  WorkflowUI->>workflow_service: Submit workflow request
  workflow_service->>workflow_tunnel: Read cache or enqueue operation
  workflow_tunnel->>Runtime: Deliver command in heartbeat
  Runtime->>workflow_service: Submit commandResult
  workflow_service->>workflow_tunnel: Record result
  WorkflowUI->>workflow_service: Poll operation or prepared read
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185-188: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the references to the legacy callback-URL proxy. This PR removes that proxy, and icp_server/modules/storage/heartbeat_repository.bal (lines 538-540) now always writes a null callback_url, so no fallback path exists. Four comments still describe one.

  • icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal#L185-L188: state that the caller reports the feature unavailable when no capable runtime exists. Drop "falls back to the legacy callback-URL proxy".
  • icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal#L245-L249: state that unmapped paths return 404 from handleWorkflowRequest. Drop "take the legacy proxy path when a callback URL exists".
  • icp_server/tests/workflow_metadata_tests.bal#L26-L27: replace "keeps exercising the legacy live-fetch path" with the actual reason for the separate scope, which is that Component 1 / Dev has no tunnel-capable runtime.
  • icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal#L31-L32: drop "callback-URL path" from the description of the service tests' scope.
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In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal` around lines 185 - 188, Remove obsolete
legacy callback-URL proxy references: in icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal lines
185-188 state only that the caller reports the feature unavailable when no
capable runtime exists; in lines 245-249 state that unmapped paths return 404
from handleWorkflowRequest; in icp_server/tests/workflow_metadata_tests.bal
lines 26-27 explain the separate scope as Component 1 / Dev lacking a
tunnel-capable runtime; and in icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal lines
31-32 remove the callback-URL path from the service-test scope description.
icp_server/tests/workflow_tests.bal (1)

213-224: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert both inputSchema values in the workflow query.

WorkflowDefinition.inputSchema accepts explicit null, but the query currently omits this field. Add inputSchema to the selection and assert the object schema and null (()) values by workflow name, not by item order.

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In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tests.bal` around lines 213 - 224, Update the
workflow query assertions around processHeartbeat to select
WorkflowDefinition.inputSchema, then validate each returned definition by
workflowType: expect the orderApproval schema object and leaveRequest to have
null inputSchema (). Do not rely on the returned item order.
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Inline comments:
In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal`:
- Around line 411-419: Update WorkflowCommandResult and the commandResult
bridge/handler flow to preserve the response body as raw text or bytes instead
of json. Avoid cloneWithType() and setJsonPayload() for result.body; write the
captured raw payload directly, while keeping the existing status and HTTP
metadata behavior unchanged.

In `@icp_server/runtime_service.bal`:
- Around line 293-301: Bind each queued workflow command to its target runtime,
resolve the authenticated caller’s runtime from the validated key ID using the
existing heartbeat mapping, and reject results whose runtimeId does not match
that binding before calling completeWorkflowCommand. Ensure correlation and
frontend relaying remain restricted to the command’s target runtime.
- Around line 259-260: Guard deliverWorkflowCommands in the heartbeat response
flow so it is not called when heartbeatResponse.fullHeartbeatRequired is true.
Reuse the existing reconciliation condition for this decision, preserving
command delivery only for responses that do not request a full heartbeat.

In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_metadata_tests.bal`:
- Around line 59-63: Add alwaysRun: true to the `@test`:AfterGroups annotation on
cleanupWorkflowMetadataTests, matching the existing workflow_tests teardown
pattern while preserving the workflow-metadata group and both cleanupRuntime
calls.

In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal`:
- Around line 177-180: Update cleanupWorkflowTunnelTests with alwaysRun: true so
the workflow tunnel runtime is removed even when grouped tests fail. Track the
org secret key ID created by testWorkflowTunnelEndToEnd in module-level state,
then have the teardown revoke it after cleanupRuntime when the ID is non-empty,
treating revocation as best-effort.

In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal`:
- Around line 200-206: Update the POST body parsing in the request-handling flow
to return HTTP 400 when req.getJsonPayload() fails or produces a non-object JSON
value, instead of retaining the empty body map. Preserve normal processing only
for successfully parsed map&lt;json&gt; payloads, and ensure the response
identifies the request as malformed.

In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 239-242: Validate result.httpStatus before assigning it in the
response construction flow: accept only valid HTTP status-code values, and
replace out-of-range values with 502 before setting response.statusCode. Keep
the existing JSON payload assignment and return behavior unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tests.bal`:
- Around line 213-224: Update the workflow query assertions around
processHeartbeat to select WorkflowDefinition.inputSchema, then validate each
returned definition by workflowType: expect the orderApproval schema object and
leaveRequest to have null inputSchema (). Do not rely on the returned item
order.

In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 185-188: Remove obsolete legacy callback-URL proxy references: in
icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal lines 185-188 state only that the caller reports
the feature unavailable when no capable runtime exists; in lines 245-249 state
that unmapped paths return 404 from handleWorkflowRequest; in
icp_server/tests/workflow_metadata_tests.bal lines 26-27 explain the separate
scope as Component 1 / Dev lacking a tunnel-capable runtime; and in
icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal lines 31-32 remove the callback-URL
path from the service-test scope description.
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…ts workflows

An integration that registers itself through the bridge showed no workflow
features, while the same integration worked when an operator created it by hand
and picked Workflow. The cause is the integration type: the integration-level
Workflows view keys on display_type = 'ballerinaWorkflow', but a component
auto-created from a heartbeat is inserted without a display_type and so takes the
column default, 'service'. Registration cannot do better on its own - the bridge
registers a runtime before anything knows whether the integration contains
workflows.

The first heartbeat carrying workflow metadata settles it: the integration has
registered workflows with its runtime, so the component is recorded as a workflow
integration. Only the generic default is promoted, and only for Ballerina
components since the workflow engine is Ballerina-only, so a type an operator
chose deliberately is left alone; re-reporting is a no-op.

Tests cover both directions: a generic component is promoted (and stays promoted
when the heartbeat repeats), and a deliberately typed one is untouched.
Heartbeat processing writes bi_workflow_metadata unconditionally, so a deployment
whose database lacks the table fails every full heartbeat with

    Table "BI_WORKFLOW_METADATA" not found
    Failed to process heartbeat for runtime <id>

and the runtime never registers. The init scripts for all five databases and the
five migration scripts already create it, but this repository also ships a
pre-built H2 database that the distribution copies to bin/database, and that file
was never updated - so a fresh pack was broken out of the box even though every
script was correct. Applying add_workflow_metadata_h2.sql to it fixes fresh
installs; existing deployments run the migration, as its own header instructs.

Found while preparing the ICP_REWAMP test environment: the integration registered,
authenticated, and was rejected at heartbeat processing.
A workflow request boosted its runtime to one heartbeat per second for a
120s sliding window. An integration that mostly serves non-workflow traffic
therefore kept heartbeating every second long after the last workflow view
was closed, and only recovered when the window ran out.

The hint now decays with idle time: 1s for the first 5s after the last
workflow request, then 2s, 5s, 10s, and no hint at all past 30s, which
returns the runtime to its own interval. Every workflow request restarts the
ramp, so an actively used session still gets the fastest cadence and command
latency is unchanged.

The bridge needs no change: it already applies the hint to its next follow-up
only, and ignores a hint that is not shorter than its own interval — so the
last step is a no-op for a runtime already on a 10s interval.
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In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_metadata_tests.bal`:
- Around line 112-156: Update the workflow-metadata test group teardown to
always restore WF_COMPONENT_2_ID’s display type to "service", independently of
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- A posted command result was correlated on commandId alone. Every runtime
  agent in an organization authenticates the same way, so any of them could
  answer a command queued for another — and that body is relayed to the console
  as the operation's result. The queue now records the runtime a command was
  issued to and refuses a result from anyone else.
- A reported httpStatus was assigned to the user-facing response unchecked. An
  out-of-range value produced a malformed response rather than a diagnosable
  failure; it now answers 502.
- A POST body that is not a JSON object was silently replaced with `{}`, so a
  mutation went out with its parameters missing and the caller was told what the
  runtime thought of a missing `result` or `reason` instead of that its own
  request was malformed. Such a request now answers 400, while a POST with no
  body at all still goes through — several operations take none.
- Commands are now delivered only into an acknowledged response. The bridge
  discards an unacknowledged one, which would drain the queue while the caller
  is still blocked. Unreachable today, since the storage layer always
  acknowledges and every other path returns before delivery; the guard keeps
  that from becoming a silent dependency.

Test hygiene, all from review: both workflow group teardowns now run with
`alwaysRun: true` — a failure otherwise left runtime rows that change which
runtime later tests see selected — the end-to-end test's org secret is revoked
in teardown rather than accumulating a row per run, and the component fixture
the promotion test changes is restored in teardown instead of at the end of a
later test. Adds a test for the cross-runtime refusal.

Also adds docs/workflow-command-tunnel.md: why the tunnel exists, the round
trip as a sequence diagram, runtime selection and capability gating, the wait
and timeout budget, the boost ramp, the security model, how metadata and
integration promotion work, the single-instance limits, and how to add an
operation. It is the ICP half of the bridge's docs/command-tunnel.md.

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197-200: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle super-admin lookup errors explicitly.

auth:isSuperAdmin returns boolean|error, but the error branch silently continues with an incomplete role set. Return an internal error when the lookup fails instead of sending a command without the synthetic admin role.

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the existing 400 malformed-body and 404 unknown-operation responses without
requiring a runtime, then resolve tunnelTarget and preserve the current 500/503
runtime errors before executeTunneledWorkflowCommand.

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- Line 59: Update the statement about deprecated /retry-tasks aliases in the
workflow command tunnel documentation to reflect that the legacy callback-URL
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executeTunneledWorkflowCommand.
- Around line 113-120: Update escapeRoleName to encode percent signs as %25
before replacing commas with %2C, preserving reversibility for literal %2C
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The workflow feature and the metadata it publishes ship in the same Alpha, so
no deployed database sits between them: an operator upgrading from a
pre-workflow release needs one script, not two run in the right order.

`bi_workflow_metadata` moves into `add_workflow_feature_<engine>.sql` as step 5
for all five engines, and the separate `add_workflow_metadata_*` scripts are
removed. The scripts stay idempotent — verified by running the merged H2 script
against a database that already has the table and the permissions.

The migration README loses its duplicate section; the consequence that section
carried is now stated where the script is documented, because it is the sharper
of the two: a missing `bi_workflow_metadata` does not just hide workflow views,
it fails every full heartbeat — MI runtimes included — since heartbeat
processing deletes the runtime's row before checking whether the heartbeat
carries any metadata at all.
The callback-URL proxy is gone: a path outside the operation vocabulary now
answers 404, and `runtimes.callback_url` is no longer populated. Three comments
and one doc paragraph still said otherwise, and the doc had inherited the claim
from the comments — so a reader would have gone looking for a fallback that is
not there.

- The request-mapping comment said unmapped paths "take the legacy proxy path
  when a callback URL exists"; they answer 404.
- The target-selection comment said the caller falls back to that proxy when no
  runtime advertises the capability; it answers 503.
- The execution comment described the response as the one "the legacy proxy
  would have relayed", using a removed component as the reference point.
- The migration scripts and their README described `callback_url` as the
  management base URL from the heartbeat. It is now retained only because
  heartbeat writes still reference the column.
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141-153: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove a result that arrives during timeout cleanup.

A result can be stored after the final poll at Line 132 and before this lock executes. This path removes the waiter but leaves the result in workflowTunnel.results permanently. Remove workflowTunnel.results[commandId] during timeout cleanup.

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     lock {
+        _ = workflowTunnel.results.removeIfHasKey(commandId);
         _ = workflowTunnel.waiting.removeIfHasKey(commandId);
         types:ControlCommand[]? queue = workflowTunnel.pendingCommands[runtimeId];
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waiter and pending-command cleanup, ensuring results arriving after the final
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353-357: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use a retry-stable workflow ID.

Each request without workflowId receives a new UUID. If the runtime starts the workflow but ICP returns a timeout, a retry starts a second workflow.

Require a caller-provided stable ID, or persist an ICP idempotency key before queueing the command. The retry must reuse the same workflow ID.

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In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal` around lines 353 - 357, Update the retry
handling around the workflowId assignment in the request-start flow so retries
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Require a caller-provided workflowId, or persist and reuse an ICP idempotency
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- Around line 141-153: Update the timeout cleanup lock to remove
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discarded.
- Around line 353-357: Update the retry handling around the workflowId
assignment in the request-start flow so retries reuse a stable identifier
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workflowId, or persist and reuse an ICP idempotency key before queueing the
command; do not create a fresh fallback ID per request.

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- POST /icp/commandResult now refuses a result posted with a key that is not
  the one the target runtime authenticates its heartbeats with
  (runtimes.key_id): the kid only proves org membership, so without this any
  authenticated runtime that learned a commandId could answer a command queued
  for another runtime. Same-key replicas remain one trust domain — the JWT
  carries no per-instance identity. Fails closed on an unreadable binding.
- A result racing in between the waiter's last poll and its timeout cleanup is
  now delivered to the caller instead of leaking in `results` forever (ids are
  never reused) while the caller was told 504 anyway.
- boostWorkflowRuntime sweeps fully-decayed boost entries, so a runtime that
  stops heartbeating before its ramp runs out no longer leaves a permanent
  entry behind — the map stays bounded by 30s of boost activity.
- Queue take and boost hint merged into takeWorkflowDelivery: one lock
  acquisition per heartbeat instead of two, and the acknowledged guard moved
  inside deliverWorkflowCommands so the two heartbeat handlers cannot drift.
- mssql_init.sql gains trg_bi_workflow_metadata_updated_at, matching the
  migration script — fresh and migrated MSSQL installs are schema-identical
  again (every other dialect was already consistent).
- Stale 'falls back to the legacy proxy' test comment corrected.

Tests: 133 passing (was 131) — adds an end-to-end foreign-key refusal test
over real HTTP and a boost-sweep test.
The workflow instance view had to build its own picture from `/execution-graph`, a
list of history nodes in the order they happened. Nothing in that list says which
branch of an if was taken, that three history nodes are one loop body running
three times, or that a review task belongs to the activity it gates — so the view
drew the only thing the data supported: a straight line.

The descriptor now carries the workflow's block structure, and every step names
its call site, so that picture can be reconstructed. This adds the endpoint that
does it: one call returns the stored graph joined to one run's history, with each
executed node resolved to the step it came from, the arms the run actually took,
and a count where a step ran more than once. Reviews fold onto their step. The
runtime's own bookkeeping activities are dropped rather than reported, and
anything genuinely unaccounted for comes back in `unmatched` instead of being
silently hidden — a renderer that finds entries there is looking at a real gap.

Steps a run never reaches simply have no entry, which is what lets a renderer
grey them out: the model is the whole workflow, the history is one path through it.

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118-131: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the first accepted result for a command.

completeWorkflowCommand accepts another result while the waiter is still registered. Line 130 then replaces the first result before awaitWorkflowCommandResult reads it.

Reject a result when workflowTunnel.results already contains result.commandId. Add a test that submits two results before the waiter runs.

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381-388: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use a stable workflow ID for retried starts.

Each POST without workflowId generates a new UUID. A client retry of the same start request therefore creates a different workflow instance instead of retrying the original request.

Require a stable client idempotency value, or persist an ICP-generated ID against a stable request key before queuing the command.

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request key before returning the instances.start command; preserve explicitly
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Do not deliver workflow commands until the runtime key binding is current.

If updateRuntimeKeyId fails at Lines 170-173, Line 190 can still deliver a command. commandResult then rejects the runtime response because the stored key is absent or stale. Delta heartbeats at Lines 243-260 can also deliver queued commands without refreshing that binding.

Update runtimes.key_id on each authenticated heartbeat path. If that update fails, retain queued workflow commands for a later acknowledged heartbeat.

Also applies to: 243-260

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authenticated heartbeat path refreshes runtimes.key_id via updateRuntimeKeyId
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deliverWorkflowCommands after the binding succeeds; when the update fails,
retain queued commands for a later acknowledged heartbeat instead of sending
them.

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verifies the original result is retained.
- Around line 381-388: Update the workflows start handling around the workflowId
generation so retries of the same POST reuse a stable identifier instead of
creating a fresh UUID. Require a client-provided idempotency value, or persist
the generated ID using a stable request key before returning the instances.start
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LGTM

…rves any hop

The in-memory tunnel held each request open on the node that accepted it — a waiter
map, a 25s block, a poll loop, a boost map — which works on one node and intermittently
never answers on two, because heartbeats arrive round-robin and the node holding the
browser's connection is usually not the node the runtime checks in with. Per the
maintainers' direction, every piece of tunnel state now lives in the shared database
and no request depends on which node served it.

Two tables replace the memory. wf_read_cache materializes reads: a primary-key insert
is the coalescing (twenty identical requests share one fetch), rows are claimed by
scope on whatever node the heartbeat lands on, a per-attempt fetch id fences late
results, and a stale entry keeps serving — with its age — while its refresh runs.
wf_operation_outbox carries mutations: addressed to one runtime (the bridge's replay
cache is per process, so redelivery is only safe to the same one), never re-targeted,
idempotency-keyed so a double submit collapses onto one operation, and expired with an
operator notification when the integration never confirms — the one outcome nobody
established. TTLs follow the design: seconds for running views and worklists, a day
for terminal instances, whose history nothing can falsify.

A completed mutation invalidates its scope's live cache rows — the read that follows
the write must not show the state the user just changed — and `?refresh=true` expires
one entry on demand (never a parameter of the operation, so it cannot fork the key),
which coalescing makes safe to expose. The instance graph composes two cached reads
statelessly and inherits both behaviours.

The console absorbs the contract in one place: wfRequest polls a 202 FETCHING read,
follows a 202 mutation to its operations/{id} outcome, and stamps every mutation with
an idempotency key — every hook keeps its synchronous shape. Sweeps run on the
existing scheduler from any node; boost state moved to the runtimes table; the wire
contract, capability negotiation and bridge are untouched.

Verified: eleven tunnel tests (coalescing, fencing, addressed claims, bounded
redelivery, idempotency, exactly-once outcomes, terminal-sparing invalidation, shared
boost), plus the 48-assertion environment suite end to end through the async contract.
Every heartbeat of every runtime ran two: one for the runtime's component and
environment, another for how much boost window it had left. The pool is small
(maxOpenConnections defaults to 10 per node) and its exhaustion does not degrade
gracefully — the heartbeat path opens a transaction and then needs a second connection
for the same flow, so an empty pool deadlocks on a connection only the holder could
release, and every query times out after 30s while the console answers 504.

Two nodes and two runtimes on one database made that reachable, and a steady multiplier
on per-heartbeat queries is the wrong thing to be paying for a value that arrives in the
same row. The runtimes row already has both.
… branch

`pnpm build` is `tsc -b && vite build`, and two errors predating this work stopped it
producing a bundle at all — which means no Docker image and no distribution from this
branch, whatever else is correct.

The environment update mutation was typed against EnvironmentInput, whose field is
environmentHandler, while UPDATE_ENVIRONMENT sends $handler. Every caller passed a
`handler` the type did not admit; the mutation was right and the type was borrowed from
the create path. It is now typed against what it sends.

RegistryFileViewer's getLanguage returned `string` into a prop that accepts a fixed set of
highlighter names, and answered 'python' and 'java' — neither of which is in that set.
Narrowed to the languages the viewer actually has, with the rest falling back to plain
text, which is what the component did anyway.
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Updated: the tunnel is now cache-table backed, not in-memory

Force-pushed. The previous head is preserved as workflow-tunnel-pre-cachetable on the fork
if you want to diff against what you last reviewed.

Why. Feedback on the earlier implementation was that it does not survive a round-robin
load balancer, and that is right. The queue, waiters and results lived in memory on whichever
node accepted the console request, so a result posted to another node had nobody waiting for
it and the caller timed out after 25s. On two nodes that is a coin flip per hop.

What replaces it. Every piece of tunnel state is in two shared tables, and no request is
held open:

  • wf_read_cache materializes reads. A primary-key insert is the coalescing — twenty
    identical requests share one fetch, with no select-then-insert window. Rows are claimed by
    scope on whatever node the heartbeat lands on. A per-attempt fetch_id fences a late
    result, so an answer from a superseded or invalidated attempt cannot resurrect state a
    mutation removed. A stale row keeps being served — with its age — while its refresh runs,
    because deleting on every mutation empties the cache faster than it can be rebuilt once
    several people are working in one environment.
  • wf_operation_outbox carries mutations. Addressed to one runtime (the bridge's replay
    cache is per process, so redelivery is only safe to the same one), never re-targeted,
    idempotency-keyed so a double submit collapses onto one operation, and EXPIRED with an
    operator notification when the integration never confirms — the one outcome nobody
    established.

Reads answer 202 {status: "FETCHING"} and the console polls; mutations answer
202 {operationId} and the console polls that. Outcomes are recorded exactly once, by
whichever node wins the conditional update: audit_logs on success, an unresolved
system_events row on failure or expiry.

Scope. Based on this branch, not on #851 — the instance-views work stays a separate
feature line. Two commits from that stack were deliberately dropped here: the task-queues
route and the work-items kind-narrowing.

One thing worth flagging: this branch's frontend did not typecheck (useUpdateEnvironment
typed against EnvironmentInput.environmentHandler while the mutation sends $handler, and
RegistryFileViewer.getLanguage returning string into a fixed union). Since pnpm build is
tsc -b && vite build, no distribution or image could be built from it. Fixed in its own
commit — worth checking whether CI runs tsc at all, because it should have been red.

Verified on two ICP nodes behind a round-robin balancer, sharing one Postgres, with two
runtimes of one integration and a dedicated Temporal: heartbeats split 42/41 across nodes,
command results arrived on both (3/4), a read went 202 → cached 200 with
x-workflow-fetched-at, and a queued mutation completed with httpStatus: 201 and a real
workflow id. The environment is hasithaa/workflow-icp-test#1.
Module dependency is main (0.9.0), which carries #94 and #95.

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icp_server/modules/types/types.bal (2)

326-327: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add capabilities to SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS.

The comment above this list states that the list must be updated whenever an optional field is added to Heartbeat. capabilities was added at Line 361, but it is not advertised. A bridge that self-limits to the advertised set will omit capabilities from its full heartbeat. upsertWorkflowMetadata then stores a NULL capabilities value, and selectWorkflowCommandTarget in icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal finds no runtime that advertised workflowCommands. Every tunneled workflow request in that deployment resolves to NO_RUNTIME.

🔧 Proposed fix
 final string[] & readonly SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS =
-        ["tryItHost", "openApiDefinitions", "workflowMetadata"];
+        ["tryItHost", "openApiDefinitions", "workflowMetadata", "capabilities"];

If the omission is intentional because capabilities is negotiated separately, please confirm how a bridge learns that the server accepts it.

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In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal` around lines 326 - 327, Add
"capabilities" to the SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS list so it is advertised
alongside the other optional Heartbeat fields and retained through heartbeat
processing.

411-419: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the body field comment.

Line 418 still describes the body as "byte-identical to the management REST API's response body". The tunnel parses the body as json and re-serializes it, so values are preserved but the representation (whitespace, key order) is normalized. Align this comment with the corrected wording used in icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal.

📝 Proposed fix
-    json body; // byte-identical to the management REST API's response body
+    json body; // the same JSON document the management REST API would have returned;
+               // re-serialized, so formatting is normalized while values are not

Based on learnings: "workflow_tunnel.bal must not claim that tunneled responses are byte-identical unless the transport changes to preserve raw response bytes."

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In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal` around lines 411 - 419, Update the
comment on the body field of WorkflowCommandResult to state that the JSON values
are preserved while serialization may normalize formatting and key order,
matching the wording in workflow_tunnel.bal; do not describe the response as
byte-identical.

Source: Learnings

icp_server/runtime_offline_scheduler.bal (1)

70-73: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale comment about the workflow proxy client cache.

pruneWorkflowClientCache() was removed with the callback-URL proxy. The first two sentences describe a call that no longer exists. Only pruneTryitClientCache() remains.

📝 Proposed fix
-        // Runtimes that just went offline were deleted (K8S) or marked OFFLINE (VM);
-        // drop the workflow proxy's cached clients for their callback URLs.
-        // Same idea for the Try-It proxy's cached clients.
+        // Runtimes that just went offline were deleted (K8S) or marked OFFLINE (VM);
+        // drop the Try-It proxy's cached clients for them.
         pruneTryitClientCache();
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In `@icp_server/runtime_offline_scheduler.bal` around lines 70 - 73, Remove the
stale workflow-proxy cache sentences from the comment above
pruneTryitClientCache(), leaving only documentation relevant to the remaining
Try-It client-cache pruning call.
icp_server/workflow_service.bal (1)

362-392: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

refresh still reaches the operation params, so the cache key differs for a forced refresh.

Line 366 removes refresh from the local queryParams map. Line 392 then calls mapWorkflowRequestToOperation with a newly built map from workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()), which still contains refresh. The removal has no effect on the operation params, so ?refresh=true produces a different cache key and creates a parallel entry instead of refreshing the shared one. This contradicts the stated intent in the comment on lines 363-365.

Pass the sanitized map instead. This also avoids parsing the query string twice.

🐛 Proposed fix
     [string, map<json>]? operation = mapWorkflowRequestToOperation(
-            method, wfPath, workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()), body);
+            method, wfPath, queryParams, body);
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In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal` around lines 362 - 392, Pass the already
sanitized queryParams map to mapWorkflowRequestToOperation instead of rebuilding
it with workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()). Preserve forceRefresh
handling while ensuring refresh is excluded from operation parameters and the
query string is parsed only once.
🧹 Nitpick comments (8)
icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal (1)

653-663: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Read the outbox row once per completed mutation.

invalidateWorkflowScopeCache and reportWorkflowOutcome each call storage:getWorkflowOperation(operationId) for the same row. That is two primary-key reads plus the one completeWorkflowOperation already performed. Load the row once here and pass it to both functions.

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In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal` around lines 653 - 663, Load the completed
operation row once after a successful mutation in the surrounding workflow
completion flow, then pass that row to invalidateWorkflowScopeCache and
reportWorkflowOutcome instead of having each function call
storage:getWorkflowOperation(operationId) independently. Update both function
signatures and their callers while preserving existing invalidation and
reporting behavior.
icp_server/modules/storage/workflow_tunnel_repository.bal (1)

521-537: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove workflowBoostRemaining if no external API requires it. The repository has no production callers; only testBoostWindowIsSharedThroughTheDatabase uses it. Update that test to assert the boost value from getWorkflowScopeForRuntime.

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In `@icp_server/modules/storage/workflow_tunnel_repository.bal` around lines 521 -
537, Remove the unused workflowBoostRemaining function and update
testBoostWindowIsSharedThroughTheDatabase to obtain and assert the boost value
through getWorkflowScopeForRuntime instead. Preserve the test’s existing
validation of shared database state without adding another production API.
icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal (1)

285-285: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Name the sweeper arguments.

sweepWorkflowTunnel(2100, 300) gives the reader no indication of what the two windows mean. Use named arguments or local constants so the intent of the retention values is visible.

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In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal` at line 285, Update the
sweepWorkflowTunnel call in the workflow tunnel test to make both
retention-window arguments self-describing, using named arguments or clearly
named local constants while preserving the existing values and behavior.
icp_server/workflow_instance_graph.bal (2)

100-102: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Simplify the redundant optional narrowing.

instanceGraphHalf already returned on the http:Response branch, so treeBody is a map<json> at line 100. The map<json>? tree declaration and the tree is map<json> test on line 102 add no protection.

-    map<json>? tree = treeBody;
-
-    json[] executedNodes = tree is map<json> && tree["nodes"] is json[] ? <json[]>tree["nodes"] : [];
+    json[] executedNodes = treeBody["nodes"] is json[] ? <json[]>treeBody["nodes"] : [];
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In `@icp_server/workflow_instance_graph.bal` around lines 100 - 102, In the
workflow following instanceGraphHalf, remove the redundant optional map
declaration and type-narrowing check, and use the already-established map<json>
treeBody directly when extracting the nodes array. Preserve the empty-array
fallback when the nodes field is absent or is not a json[] value.

39-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the package-local import form. Replace wso2/icp_server.storage and wso2/icp_server.types with icp_server.storage and icp_server.types to match the package’s established convention.

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In `@icp_server/workflow_instance_graph.bal` around lines 39 - 42, Update the
imports in workflow_instance_graph.bal to use the package-local forms
icp_server.storage and icp_server.types instead of the wso2/icp_server-prefixed
paths, while leaving the standard ballerina imports unchanged.
icp_server/resources/db/migration-scripts/add_workflow_tunnel_mysql.sql (1)

68-70: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The file claims idempotency, but the final statement is not idempotent.

Line 7 states the script is safe to re-run. Line 70 fails with ER_DUP_FIELDNAME on a re-run. Today the failure is harmless because the statement is last, but any statement added after it will be skipped by a runner that stops on the first error. Guard the column with an information_schema check so the whole file is genuinely re-runnable.

The type matches wf_boosted_until BIGINT in icp_server/resources/db/init-scripts/mysql_init.sql, so fresh installs and migrated installs agree.

♻️ Suggested guard
SET `@stmt` = (
    SELECT IF(
        COUNT(*) = 0,
        'ALTER TABLE runtimes ADD COLUMN wf_boosted_until BIGINT',
        'DO 0'
    )
    FROM information_schema.COLUMNS
    WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = DATABASE()
      AND TABLE_NAME = 'runtimes'
      AND COLUMN_NAME = 'wf_boosted_until'
);
PREPARE s FROM `@stmt`;
EXECUTE s;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE s;
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In `@icp_server/resources/db/migration-scripts/add_workflow_tunnel_mysql.sql`
around lines 68 - 70, Make the final wf_boosted_until migration in the runtimes
ALTER TABLE flow idempotent by checking information_schema.COLUMNS for the
column in the current database and executing the ADD COLUMN statement only when
it is absent; otherwise execute a harmless no-op. Preserve the BIGINT definition
and ensure prepared statements are cleaned up.
frontend/src/components/RegistryFileViewer.tsx (1)

75-82: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Return type now matches the viewer contract; note the highlighting regression.

The narrowed union removes the type error and keeps a safe text fallback. Python and Java registry files now render without highlighting. If those types are common in the registry, consider extending the CodeViewer language union and registering the corresponding highlighter languages in a follow-up. This change is correct as a build fix.

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In `@frontend/src/components/RegistryFileViewer.tsx` around lines 75 - 82, The
current getLanguage implementation intentionally falls back to text for
unsupported Python and Java files, causing those registry files to lose syntax
highlighting. If Python and Java highlighting is required, extend the CodeViewer
language union and register the corresponding highlighter languages, then update
getLanguage to return those languages while preserving the text fallback for
unsupported types.
icp_server/workflow_service.bal (1)

344-361: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider skipping the target lookup for the paths that no longer need it.

selectWorkflowCommandTarget runs for every request that reaches line 355. Reads now resolve a runtime inside ensureWorkflowRead, and mutations resolve one inside enqueueWorkflowMutation; both return their own 503 when no runtime is available. The lookup here adds a database round trip on a path the console polls every 750 ms, and it duplicates the 503 message in three places.

If the early 503 is intentional for clarity, this is fine as is. Otherwise, move the check into the two helpers only.

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In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal` around lines 344 - 361, Remove the
unconditional selectWorkflowCommandTarget lookup from the shared request path
and let ensureWorkflowRead and enqueueWorkflowMutation resolve their own runtime
targets and return their existing 503 responses. Preserve the early
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Inline comments:
In `@frontend/src/api/workflows.ts`:
- Around line 163-170: Update wfRequest so non-GET requests generate an
idempotency key without relying exclusively on crypto.randomUUID; use a safe
fallback when that API is unavailable in insecure contexts, ensuring mutation
requests still proceed with a unique key.

In `@icp_server/modules/storage/workflow_tunnel_repository.bal`:
- Around line 426-448: Update sweepWorkflowTunnel so each returned expiring row
is tied to the rows this invocation successfully expires, rather than selecting
eligible rows before a separate status-fenced update. Preserve the existing
PENDING/DELIVERED eligibility and expiration behavior, and ensure concurrent
sweepers cannot both return the same operation; use an existing per-pass
identifier or equivalent atomic update-and-return mechanism if needed.
- Around line 252-288: Update claimWorkflowCacheReads to require expires_at to
be later than the current time, and extend sweepWorkflowTunnel to clear fetch_id
and claimed_at for expired in-flight reads, marking rows without payload as
failed while preserving existing status for populated rows.

In `@icp_server/resources/db/init-scripts/postgresql_init.sql`:
- Line 747: Update the wf_read_cache indexes in
icp_server/resources/db/init-scripts/postgresql_init.sql (747-747),
icp_server/resources/db/init-scripts/mssql_init.sql (1207-1207),
icp_server/resources/db/init-scripts/oracle_init.sql (862-862), and
icp_server/resources/db/migration-scripts/add_workflow_tunnel_postgresql.sql
(38-38). Replace the status-leading idx_wfrc_claim definition with an index led
by scope_key and expires_at for staleWorkflowCacheScope, and add a separate
scope_key-leading index covering fetch_id and claimed_at for
claimWorkflowCacheReads; apply the corresponding definitions consistently across
all five init scripts and five add_workflow_tunnel_* migration scripts.

In
`@icp_server/resources/db/migration-scripts/add_workflow_tunnel_postgresql.sql`:
- Line 26: Align the cache_key column type between the add_workflow_tunnel
migration and the postgresql_init.sql fresh-install schema, choosing one
consistent 64-character type and applying it to both declarations. Preserve the
existing 64-character SHA-256 key capacity.

In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal`:
- Around line 66-90: Update testResultFromASupersededAttemptIsDiscarded to start
a new workflow cache fetch with a different attempt ID after the initial result
is stored, then call completeWorkflowCacheFetch with the original ID to verify
the superseded result is rejected. Adjust the final fetchId assertion to reflect
the replacement attempt remaining in flight.

In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 165-223: Update ensureWorkflowRead to call
storage:boostWorkflowScope once near the start of the function so every
invocation, including fresh cache hits and PENDING results, extends the boost
window; remove the later redundant boostWorkflowScope call from the new-fetch
path and preserve the existing boost duration.
- Around line 276-296: Validate idempotencyKey in enqueueWorkflowMutation before
constructing operationId, enforcing the allowed length after accounting for
WF_OPERATION_COMMAND_PREFIX and the expected key shape; return the existing
invalid-input error used for caller validation when it is missing, malformed, or
too long. Keep valid keys flowing unchanged to storage:enqueueWorkflowOperation.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal`:
- Around line 326-327: Add "capabilities" to the SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS list
so it is advertised alongside the other optional Heartbeat fields and retained
through heartbeat processing.
- Around line 411-419: Update the comment on the body field of
WorkflowCommandResult to state that the JSON values are preserved while
serialization may normalize formatting and key order, matching the wording in
workflow_tunnel.bal; do not describe the response as byte-identical.

In `@icp_server/runtime_offline_scheduler.bal`:
- Around line 70-73: Remove the stale workflow-proxy cache sentences from the
comment above pruneTryitClientCache(), leaving only documentation relevant to
the remaining Try-It client-cache pruning call.

In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal`:
- Around line 362-392: Pass the already sanitized queryParams map to
mapWorkflowRequestToOperation instead of rebuilding it with
workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()). Preserve forceRefresh handling while
ensuring refresh is excluded from operation parameters and the query string is
parsed only once.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@frontend/src/components/RegistryFileViewer.tsx`:
- Around line 75-82: The current getLanguage implementation intentionally falls
back to text for unsupported Python and Java files, causing those registry files
to lose syntax highlighting. If Python and Java highlighting is required, extend
the CodeViewer language union and register the corresponding highlighter
languages, then update getLanguage to return those languages while preserving
the text fallback for unsupported types.

In `@icp_server/modules/storage/workflow_tunnel_repository.bal`:
- Around line 521-537: Remove the unused workflowBoostRemaining function and
update testBoostWindowIsSharedThroughTheDatabase to obtain and assert the boost
value through getWorkflowScopeForRuntime instead. Preserve the test’s existing
validation of shared database state without adding another production API.

In `@icp_server/resources/db/migration-scripts/add_workflow_tunnel_mysql.sql`:
- Around line 68-70: Make the final wf_boosted_until migration in the runtimes
ALTER TABLE flow idempotent by checking information_schema.COLUMNS for the
column in the current database and executing the ADD COLUMN statement only when
it is absent; otherwise execute a harmless no-op. Preserve the BIGINT definition
and ensure prepared statements are cleaned up.

In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal`:
- Line 285: Update the sweepWorkflowTunnel call in the workflow tunnel test to
make both retention-window arguments self-describing, using named arguments or
clearly named local constants while preserving the existing values and behavior.

In `@icp_server/workflow_instance_graph.bal`:
- Around line 100-102: In the workflow following instanceGraphHalf, remove the
redundant optional map declaration and type-narrowing check, and use the
already-established map<json> treeBody directly when extracting the nodes array.
Preserve the empty-array fallback when the nodes field is absent or is not a
json[] value.
- Around line 39-42: Update the imports in workflow_instance_graph.bal to use
the package-local forms icp_server.storage and icp_server.types instead of the
wso2/icp_server-prefixed paths, while leaving the standard ballerina imports
unchanged.

In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal`:
- Around line 344-361: Remove the unconditional selectWorkflowCommandTarget
lookup from the shared request path and let ensureWorkflowRead and
enqueueWorkflowMutation resolve their own runtime targets and return their
existing 503 responses. Preserve the early serveWorkflowOperationStatus handling
and keep target selection only where it is required for the specific operation.

In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 653-663: Load the completed operation row once after a successful
mutation in the surrounding workflow completion flow, then pass that row to
invalidateWorkflowScopeCache and reportWorkflowOutcome instead of having each
function call storage:getWorkflowOperation(operationId) independently. Update
both function signatures and their callers while preserving existing
invalidation and reporting behavior.
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Comment thread icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal
The bridge reports which Temporal task queue its worker polls, and nothing here stored it —
so the field arrived on every heartbeat and was dropped. The queue is what scopes a shared
Temporal namespace down to one integration, which is exactly what a console needs when two
integrations of a project share a namespace.

Stored beside `capabilities` rather than inside the metadata document, because it is runtime
state: chosen at program startup, and it can differ between two runtimes of the same program.
The column is nullable, so a heartbeat from an older bridge is unchanged.

Lifted from the instance-views branch, storage only. The `/task-queues` endpoint and the
project-scoped metadata lookup that came with it there belong to that work, not to this PR,
and are not included.

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icp_server/modules/types/types.bal (1)

326-327: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Advertise all new heartbeat fields.

SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS omits capabilities and workflowTaskQueue, although both are optional fields in Heartbeat. A bridge that follows this list will not publish the capability and task-queue state required by selectWorkflowCommandTarget in icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal. Add both field names and add a regression test for the negotiation list.

Suggested update
 final string[] & readonly SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS =
-        ["tryItHost", "openApiDefinitions", "workflowMetadata"];
+        ["tryItHost", "openApiDefinitions", "workflowMetadata",
+         "capabilities", "workflowTaskQueue"];
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In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal` around lines 326 - 327, Update
SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS to include capabilities and workflowTaskQueue,
preserving the existing field names, and add a regression test that verifies
both fields appear in the negotiation list used by selectWorkflowCommandTarget.
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In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal`:
- Around line 326-327: Update SUPPORTED_HEARTBEAT_FIELDS to include capabilities
and workflowTaskQueue, preserving the existing field names, and add a regression
test that verifies both fields appear in the negotiation list used by
selectWorkflowCommandTarget.

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The tables were workflow-shaped: wf_read_cache and wf_operation_outbox, with the parts that
make a request unique spread across columns. Nothing about either is specific to workflows,
so they are now cache_entry and cache_operation_outbox, and what a row is about lives in
`kind` while the rest lives in `data`. A second feature wanting the same shape — answers that
take a round trip, operations that need confirming — adds a kind rather than a table.

The `cache_` prefix is the contract: DERIVED state. These may be dropped and recreated on any
upgrade, and nothing in them needs migrating; losing a row costs one refetch, or one caller
being told their operation was never confirmed.

What still earns a column is what a WHERE clause needs, and only that: the computed key, the
owner a delivery claim filters on, the token that fences a late answer, status, and the epoch
expiry. Five engines and no portable JSON predicates between them is why those four cannot
live in `data` — and why `owner` had to stay on the outbox as well, since completing an
operation invalidates that owner's answers.

Merging request and response into one blob had one real consequence, which the tests caught:
claiming a refresh used to write the request over the answer being served, destroying the
payload that stale-while-revalidate exists to keep. A refresh of the same key is a refresh of
the same request — the key is computed from it — so it no longer writes `data` at all, and
the result write carries the request forward beside the response.

Review findings, all four:

- An unanswered fetch kept its token, so every heartbeat re-offered it until the sweeper
  removed the row — dozens of commands for a question nobody could answer — while every poll
  on it read as "still fetching". The claim now skips expired fetches and the sweep abandons
  them, which turns silence into an answer.
- The sweep read the expiring rows and expired them in a second statement, so two nodes could
  both report the same lost operation and raise two notifications for it. It now expires
  first, stamping its own id, and reports only what it transitioned — the same rule the rest
  of this design follows for outcomes.
- The claim index led with `status`, which the claim never filters on. It now matches the
  predicate: owner, token, claimed_at.
- `crypto.randomUUID` is only defined in a secure context, so a console served over plain HTTP
  on anything but localhost would have thrown before sending any mutation. The idempotency key
  falls back.

Also fixed a stale guard the rename exposed: the failure paths tested `data IS NULL` to mean
"never answered", which was true when `data` was the response column and is never true now.
They key on status instead, so a failed refresh still keeps the answer it was serving.
Opening a workflow view sat on a spinner until the integration answered, and
then failed with "still preparing this data" if that took too long. Both come
from wfRequest polling a 202 inside the request: the asynchronous contract was
implemented on the server and hidden from the user, so the one thing the design
guarantees — an immediate answer about what is happening — never reached them.

Reads now return a Fetchable<T>: either the value, or `fetching` with the
interval the server asked to be called back on. react-query does the polling
and keeps the previous answer on screen while it happens, and each view says
"Fetching … from the integration…" where it would otherwise have claimed
emptiness. An empty list and an unanswered one are different statements, and
only one of them was ever true here.

Applied to every read — instances, definitions, instance detail, history,
execution graph, human tasks, review activities, and the two tab counts — not
just the instance list, because every one of them goes through the same cache.
Detail dialogs fold `fetching` into their own spinner rather than rendering a
form with blank fields. Mutations keep waiting: the caller pressed a button, so
a spinner on that button is honest, and wfRequest already polls the operation
id rather than re-sending the request.
The Workflows page of one integration listed another integration's instances.
Temporal's visibility API is scoped to a NAMESPACE, not to a task queue, so a
listing asked of this component's runtime answers with everything in the
namespace — every other integration deployed beside it included. With two
integrations in one environment the two lists were identical, 20 instances
each, and neither was right.

The module already accepts a taskQueue filter on the four listings that need
one, and this branch already stores each runtime's queue on every heartbeat. It
just never joined them up: the column was written and never read. The target
now carries its queue, and the four namespace-wide operations get it as a
default.

Applied where the request is built rather than where it is delivered, so the
filter is part of the question being asked: the cache key covers it, and the
request stored for a heartbeat to deliver is exactly what was asked for. A
caller-supplied taskQueue always wins, so a console that offers a queue
selector still controls it. A runtime that published no queue — an older bridge
or module — keeps the previous namespace-wide behaviour rather than breaking.

Verified against two integrations of two workers each: 10 expense instances and
11 orders, no crossover, where both previously reported the same 20.
jsonObjectOf survived the change that made the instance graph compose cached
payloads instead of http:Response objects, and nothing has called it since.
fetchableRefetch is only ever used by the hooks in its own module.

A sweep for unreferenced functions and constants across the tunnel, the cache
repository, the service and the instance graph found nothing else: the
functions I suspected of being orphaned by the cache-table reshape
(expireCacheEntry, cacheBoostRemaining, getRuntimeCacheOwner) all still have
callers -- the middle one only from a test, which is what keeps boostCacheOwner
honest.

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37-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the table names in the module header.

The header names wf_read_cache and wf_operation_outbox. This change renames them to cache_entry and cache_operation_outbox. Use the current names so the header matches the schema and the repository module.

📝 Proposed comment change
 // Nothing about a request lives in this process. Every ICP node shares the queue through
-// wf_read_cache and wf_operation_outbox, because heartbeats arrive round-robin: the node
+// cache_entry and cache_operation_outbox, because heartbeats arrive round-robin: the node
 // that accepts a user's request is usually NOT the node that receives the runtime's next
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In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal` around lines 37 - 42, Update the module
header comment to replace the outdated table names wf_read_cache and
wf_operation_outbox with cache_entry and cache_operation_outbox, keeping the
surrounding explanation unchanged.
icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal (1)

180-195: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Both statements assign status before a later SET expression reads status. MySQL evaluates multi-column SET assignments left to right, and a later expression observes the value already assigned in the same statement. The data branch therefore compares the new status on MySQL and keeps the previous value, while PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL and H2 store the new payload. Replace the CASE conditions with a status predicate in the WHERE clause, and use a companion statement to release the fence for rows in another status.

  • icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal#L180-L195: in failCacheFetch, move the FETCHING test into the WHERE clause so errorPayload is stored on every engine.
  • icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal#L308-L324: in abandonExpiredCacheFetches, apply the same change so failureData is stored and the caller stops polling.
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In `@icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal` around lines 180 - 195,
Update failCacheFetch in icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal:180-195
to move the FETCHING status predicate into WHERE, ensuring errorPayload is
stored consistently across database engines, and add the companion statement
needed to release the fence for rows in other statuses. Apply the same change to
abandonExpiredCacheFetches in
icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal:308-324 so failureData is stored
and polling stops.
icp_server/modules/types/types.bal (1)

420-426: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the body comment: the tunnel normalizes JSON representation.

body is typed json, so the payload is parsed and re-serialized. Values are preserved, but whitespace and key order are normalized. The prior discussion on this record established that the code must not claim byte-identity. Align this comment with the wording already used in workflow_tunnel.bal.

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-    json body; // byte-identical to the management REST API's response body
+    json body; // the same JSON document the management REST API would have returned
+               // (re-serialized, so formatting is normalized — the values are not)

Based on learnings: "workflow_tunnel.bal must not claim that tunneled responses are byte-identical unless the transport changes to preserve raw response bytes."

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In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal` around lines 420 - 426, Update the body
field comment in WorkflowCommandResult to remove the byte-identical claim and
describe that the JSON payload preserves values while normalizing representation
such as whitespace and key order, matching the established wording in
workflow_tunnel.bal.

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icp_server/workflow_service.bal (1)

362-392: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

refresh still reaches the operation params, so a forced refresh creates a parallel cache entry.

Line 366 removes refresh from the local queryParams map. Line 392 then rebuilds the map with workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()), so the sanitized value is discarded and refresh is present again. mapWorkflowRequestToOperation returns that map verbatim for instances.list, humanTasks.list and reviewActivities.list.

Two effects follow. workflowCacheKey hashes refresh=true into the key, so ?refresh=true addresses a different entry than the same view without the flag — the outcome the comment at Lines 363-366 states must not happen. The flag is also forwarded to the runtime as an unknown operation parameter.

Pass the sanitized map.

🐛 Proposed fix
     [string, map<json>]? operation = mapWorkflowRequestToOperation(
-            method, wfPath, workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()), body);
+            method, wfPath, queryParams, body);
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In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal` around lines 362 - 392, Pass the already
sanitized queryParams map to mapWorkflowRequestToOperation instead of rebuilding
it with workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()). Preserve removal of refresh
so it is excluded from both workflowCacheKey and forwarded operation parameters
while retaining all other query parameters.
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icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal (1)

334-338: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the abandoned entry holds the failure response.

The test asserts token and status only. It does not assert that data was replaced with the failure document. The caller-facing behavior depends on that write: readOutcomeFromPayload returns PENDING for an entry without a response key, so a FAILED row with no response document leaves the caller polling. Add the payload assertion so the test covers the answer, not only the state.

🧪 Proposed change
     types:CacheEntry? row = check storage:getCacheEntry(cacheKey);
     if row is types:CacheEntry {
         test:assertEquals(row.token, (), "An abandoned fetch must leave nothing in flight");
         test:assertEquals(row.status, types:CACHE_FAILED);
+        test:assertEquals(row.data, "{\"response\":{\"httpStatus\":504}}",
+            "An abandoned fetch must record the failure answer the caller will read");
     }
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In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal` around lines 334 - 338, Extend
the abandoned-fetch assertion in the cache-entry test to verify that row.data
contains the failure response document, alongside the existing token and status
checks. Use the established failure-payload representation and assert the
response field required by readOutcomeFromPayload, ensuring a FAILED entry
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Inline comments:
In `@frontend/src/api/workflows.ts`:
- Around line 417-422: Update humanTaskQueryOptions, review-activity detail
query options, and workflow-definition query options in
frontend/src/api/workflows.ts at lines 417-422, 527-530, and 626-640 to include
refetchInterval: ({ state }) => fetchableRefetch(state.data). Use the existing
fetchableRefetch helper so queries poll while the server reports fetching.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal`:
- Around line 180-195: Update failCacheFetch in
icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal:180-195 to move the FETCHING
status predicate into WHERE, ensuring errorPayload is stored consistently across
database engines, and add the companion statement needed to release the fence
for rows in other statuses. Apply the same change to abandonExpiredCacheFetches
in icp_server/modules/storage/cache_repository.bal:308-324 so failureData is
stored and polling stops.

In `@icp_server/modules/types/types.bal`:
- Around line 420-426: Update the body field comment in WorkflowCommandResult to
remove the byte-identical claim and describe that the JSON payload preserves
values while normalizing representation such as whitespace and key order,
matching the established wording in workflow_tunnel.bal.

In `@icp_server/workflow_service.bal`:
- Around line 362-392: Pass the already sanitized queryParams map to
mapWorkflowRequestToOperation instead of rebuilding it with
workflowQueryParams(req.getQueryParams()). Preserve removal of refresh so it is
excluded from both workflowCacheKey and forwarded operation parameters while
retaining all other query parameters.

In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 37-42: Update the module header comment to replace the outdated
table names wf_read_cache and wf_operation_outbox with cache_entry and
cache_operation_outbox, keeping the surrounding explanation unchanged.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@icp_server/tests/workflow_tunnel_tests.bal`:
- Around line 334-338: Extend the abandoned-fetch assertion in the cache-entry
test to verify that row.data contains the failure response document, alongside
the existing token and status checks. Use the established failure-payload
representation and assert the response field required by readOutcomeFromPayload,
ensuring a FAILED entry cannot remain pending to callers.
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Comment thread frontend/src/api/workflows.ts
Caught in review on wso2#834, and it is the worse half of the bug the Fetchable
change set out to fix: the human-task detail, review-activity detail and
definition fan-out queries reported `fetching` once and then sat there. Before
the change they at least blocked until an answer arrived; after it they would
spin until something unrelated invalidated them.

Every query that produces a Fetchable now schedules its own follow-up — eleven
sites, audited by grepping for the producers rather than the consumers, since
the missing ones were exactly those whose config was written by hand instead of
copied from a hook.
Found while testing a second user: their Human Tasks view answered 504 with
"No workflow runtime answered this request in time" while the integration was
healthy and the admin's identical view answered 200. Two bugs, both permanent
once triggered.

The sweeper wrote a failure document over the row's `data` — and `data` is
where the REQUEST lives. A retry then had nothing to ask, so the row could
never recover: the view answered 504 for as long as the row lived. `status`
already says the fetch failed, so the sweep now leaves `data` alone. What
poisoned it here was a wedged connection pool (a pre-existing audit_logs
transaction holding up every heartbeat), which is exactly the kind of transient
outage a cache must recover from by itself.

And a failure that had outlived its expiry was still served as an answer.
Stale-while-revalidate is right for data — an old list still tells the user
something true — but wrong for an error: it keeps reporting a failure the
system has already moved past. An expired failure now reports PENDING and
starts a refresh, so the console goes back to "Fetching…" and answers when the
next heartbeat delivers. A failure that has NOT yet expired is still served, so
a caller learns promptly that a read failed rather than watching a spinner.
Every component-level Workflows listing came back empty, and the tab badge
above it said there was work. Found by loading the page in a browser: no API
test could see it, because the API was answering correctly — it was being asked
the wrong question.

The frontend filtered by `component.handler` on the assumption that a handler is
the runtime's Temporal task queue. It is not. The queue is whatever the
integration is configured with — `EXPENSE_TASK_QUEUE` against a handler of
`expense-integration` — which is exactly why the runtime publishes it on every
heartbeat and this branch stores it. Filtering on the handler matched nothing,
so the list was empty while `pending-count`, which the module counts by a
different path, reported three. A number contradicting the page beneath it.

Nothing needs to be sent: the ICP narrows a component-level read to its target
runtime's own published queue. The integration selector at project scope cannot
narrow without knowing the real queues — that needs the /task-queues endpoint,
which belongs with the instance-graph work — so it now widens instead of lying.
An unfiltered list shows more than was asked for; a wrongly-filtered one shows
nothing and calls it an answer.

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605-607: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use the fetch expiry as the command deadline.

A redelivery creates a new deadline from now, but cache_entry.expires_at remains unchanged. The sweeper can abandon the fetch before the runtime-side deadline, then discard a result that the runtime produced within its command deadline.

Include the fetch expiry in CachePendingFetch and pass that value to workflowCommand.

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In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal` around lines 605 - 607, Update the fetch flow
to include the existing fetch expiry in CachePendingFetch, then use that expiry
as the deadline argument to workflowCommand instead of recalculating it from now
plus WF_READ_FETCH_DEADLINE_SECONDS; preserve the existing command and
redelivery behavior otherwise.

212-214: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Apply the selected task queue before building the cache key and request.

withTaskQueueScope is not called. The read request and cache key therefore use unscoped params.

For task-queue-scoped operations, select the target and apply target.taskQueue before workflowCacheKey and workflowRequestDocument. This keeps workflow listings limited to the selected component queue and prevents reuse of an unscoped cache entry.

Also applies to: 267-275

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In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal` around lines 212 - 214, The workflow
operation path must apply the selected task-queue scope before constructing the
cache key or request document. Update the flow around withTaskQueueScope,
workflowCacheKey, and workflowRequestDocument to select the target and apply
target.taskQueue to params first, while preserving unscoped behavior when no
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Inline comments:
In `@frontend/src/components/workflow/AdminPortal.tsx`:
- Around line 243-248: Disable or hide IntegrationFilter in
frontend/src/components/workflow/AdminPortal.tsx lines 243-248 until the
selected integration can resolve its runtime task queue, or pass that resolved
queue into useWorkflowInstances. Apply the same correction at
frontend/src/components/workflow/AdminPortal.tsx lines 555-556 for
useReviewActivities, ensuring integration selection no longer appears to filter
unfiltered queries.

In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 236-245: Update the failed-read handling around
startWorkflowReadRefresh so it distinguishes a refresh that did not claim a
fetch, including when selectWorkflowCommandTarget returns (). Propagate that
no-runtime outcome from the refresh path and return NO_RUNTIME instead of
PENDING when no retry command is in flight; preserve PENDING when a retry is
successfully started.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal`:
- Around line 605-607: Update the fetch flow to include the existing fetch
expiry in CachePendingFetch, then use that expiry as the deadline argument to
workflowCommand instead of recalculating it from now plus
WF_READ_FETCH_DEADLINE_SECONDS; preserve the existing command and redelivery
behavior otherwise.
- Around line 212-214: The workflow operation path must apply the selected
task-queue scope before constructing the cache key or request document. Update
the flow around withTaskQueueScope, workflowCacheKey, and
workflowRequestDocument to select the target and apply target.taskQueue to
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Comment thread icp_server/workflow_tunnel.bal
system_events was empty for an entire test round. Every operator notification
this design promises — the unresolved record of a mutation whose outcome nobody
established (§0d) — was being refused by PostgreSQL and swallowed.

`metadata` is jsonb there and a text column on the other engines, so the bind
needs a conditional ::jsonb cast, the same split upsertWorkflowMetadata already
makes. Without it: 42804, "column is of type jsonb but expression is of type
character varying".

The swallow is right — a reporting failure must not fail the caller — and it is
also what hid this for a whole round. Nothing asserted the table had rows in it,
so nothing noticed. scripts/edge-cases.sh A11 now does, which is how it turned
up: the expiry path did everything else correctly (504, "may or may not have
been applied", no re-delivery, the completion never applied) and told no one.
The boost updated `runtimes` on every read. Its guard only stopped the expiry
moving backwards, and `until` is derived from now, so every read moved it
forward — twenty readers polling meant twenty writes.

Those are the same rows `processHeartbeat` locks for the length of its
transaction, which on main already spans upsertRuntime, a full artifact
rewrite, a consistency query and an audit insert. So a boost per read queues
behind a heartbeat, and heartbeats queue behind boosts, on the exact rows that
serialize per runtime (analysis/05 §8b).

Extending only once the window has half lapsed keeps the boost continuous and
turns a write per read into at most one write per half-window.

The wedge itself is not ours — main has that transaction verbatim — but this was
our contribution to how easily it is reached, and the remaining one is that
upsertWorkflowMetadata runs inside the same transaction via
insertRuntimeArtifacts.
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Verification on a two-node cluster

Everything below was run against 2 ICP nodes and 4 integration workers (2 replicas each of 2
integrations) on shared PostgreSQL, behind an nginx HTTP proxy that balances per request with
no session affinity. The environment and every script named here live in
hasithaa/workflow-icp-test.

Balancing per request matters more than it sounds. The environment originally used a TCP proxy,
which balances per connection — and both the browser and the bridge's HTTP client keep
connections alive, so every request on a connection landed on the same node. That is stickiness
by connection reuse, and it meant the environment was claiming to test the stateless path while
pinning each client to a node. Verified after the fix: eight requests on separate connections
alternate between nodes, and six requests sharing one keep-alive connection alternate too.

Suites

Suite Result
smoke.sh — registration, definitions, a human task end to end, lifecycle 22/22
edge-cases.sh — the cases below 1 open finding, not ours
concurrent.sh — 20 sessions across 4 role sets all assertions pass
browser-check.mjs — the console in headless Chrome 7/7
ws-fanout.mjs — cross-node event delivery documents #854

What each case establishes

Case Result
Cross-role leakage An OPS-only user sees none of the APPROVER-addressed tasks that admin and approver both see (8/8/0), and the cache holds one entry per role set for the one view — so role-scoped identity is doing its job rather than collapsing users onto a shared answer.
Node independence Killing the node that accepted an in-flight read: the surviving node claims it on its next heartbeat, delivers it and serves the answer. This was the failure mode of the in-memory design.
Enqueue node ≠ delivering node Holds by construction now that balancing is per request — a console request and the heartbeat that serves it routinely land on different nodes.
Dead-target mutation A mutation whose target dies before confirming ends EXPIRED, polls as 504 saying the outcome "may or may not have been applied", is not re-delivered when the target returns, and the action is never applied. An unresolved workflow_operation_unconfirmed notification names it.
Late result cannot resurrect a row A result posted through the real /icp/commandResult, with a real runtime JWT, for an attempt the row no longer holds is accepted (202) and discarded — not stored, not served, and the newer attempt keeps the row.
External change becomes visible An instance terminated with the Temporal CLI, behind the ICP's back, shows up as TERMINATED on an unforced read.
One outcome record per operation No workflow operation has more than one audit record, with four workers heartbeating independently.
Coalescing 20 concurrent sessions produced 10 cache entries and 10 delivered commands, not 180. Entries scale with distinct questions, not with callers.

Latency, same run: warm reads ~110–150 ms p50; a cold read costs up to one heartbeat
interval (p95 ≈ 10 s at a 10 s interval), because the fetch waits for the next heartbeat to claim
it. Worth knowing when picking a production heartbeat interval — it sets first-load latency.

Bugs this testing found, and fixed here

  • Listings were namespace-wide. Temporal's visibility API is scoped to a namespace, not a
    task queue, so each component's listing returned every instance in the environment — with two
    integrations both lists were identical and neither was right. The queue each runtime publishes
    was already stored and never read. Now defaulted where the request is built, so it is part of
    the cache key and of the stored request; a caller-supplied value still wins.
  • The frontend filtered by component.handler. It is not the runtime's task queue
    (EXPENSE_TASK_QUEUE against a handler of expense-integration), so every component-level
    listing came back empty while the tab badge above it said three. Found by loading the page in
    a browser — no API assertion could see it, because the API was answering correctly and being
    asked the wrong question.
  • A failed read answered 504 for as long as its row lived. The give-up sweep wrote its
    failure notice over data, which is where the request lives, so the retry had nothing to
    ask and every later read served the stale failure. One transient outage broke a view
    permanently. The sweep now leaves data alone, and an expired failure reports PENDING and
    refreshes instead of being served.
  • Three Fetchable queries never polled again (caught in review here) — the detail and
    definition queries reported "fetching" once and then sat there.
  • Notifications were silently discarded. metadata is jsonb on PostgreSQL and the bind
    was a string, so every operator notification failed with 42804 and was swallowed by design.
    system_events was empty for an entire round.
  • The boost wrote on every read. boostCacheOwner updates runtimes by
    component+environment — the rows processHeartbeat locks for the length of its transaction —
    and its guard only prevented moving the expiry backwards. It now extends only once the window
    has half lapsed: at most one write per half-window instead of one per read.

Two findings that are not this PR's

There is also a lost-update in the module, not here: two entitled users completing one human
task are both told 200 while only one decision takes effect (WorkflowNative.completeHumanTask
checks the task is RUNNING, then signals; both callers pass the check and a signal cannot refuse).
The ICP never learns a decision was discarded, so it cannot detect or report it. To be filed
against the module.

Raised in review. Narrowing a listing to one integration is a task-queue filter,
and the browser cannot resolve an integration's queue: `handler` is the
integration's name, not the queue its runtime works. The control was offering a
selection that changed nothing — worse than not offering it, because the list
below it looks like a filtered result.

Removed at both sites (instances and review activities) along with its state and
the stale entry in the Clear affordance. It comes back with the /task-queues
lookup, which belongs to the instance-graph work; the git history has the
control if it is wanted verbatim.
…tempt

Both raised in review, both still valid.

The client's x-idempotency-key became `operation_id` unchecked, and that column
is VARCHAR(100) behind a 4-character prefix. A longer header therefore failed the
INSERT with "value too long" and answered 500 — a caller's malformed input
reported as a server fault, and trivially triggerable. It is a 400 now, with the
length and charset both checked, because this value ends up in an id that is
routed by prefix and read back in logs.

The fencing test passed the same token twice, so the second completion failed
because the first had cleared it — proving only that a completed fetch cannot be
completed again. It now re-claims the row as a second attempt first, which is the
case worth fencing: the entry went stale, a refresh took it, and the first
runtime is still holding an answer. The late result is discarded, the refresh
stays in flight, and the attempt that does own the row can still answer.

The wire-level version of this is scripts/edge-cases.sh A15 in the test
environment, which posts a stale result through /icp/commandResult with a real
runtime JWT.
hasithaa added a commit to hasithaa/integration-control-plane that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Takes wso2#834 as it now stands, so this branch carries the cache-table tunnel
rather than its own older copy of the in-memory one. What is left here is the UI
revamp and the API surface it consumes — 258 backend insertions, none of them
tunnel internals: no cache repository, no SQL scripts, no heartbeat path.

Resolutions worth knowing about:

The data layer changed underneath these components. Every read now returns
`Fetchable<T>` — `202 {"status":"FETCHING"}` surfaced as state rather than
waited on inside the request — so the portals, the drawer and both infinite
queries unwrap with valueOf/isPreparing. The infinite queries needed real
thought: a page still being prepared has no next token, and treating that as
"no more pages" would silently truncate a listing, so paging pauses instead.
Lists distinguish "fetching from the integration" from "there are none".

Task-queue scoping resolves properly here and supersedes wso2#834's stopgap. wso2#834
sends no queue and lets the ICP default it from the target runtime's published
value, because the browser could not resolve one; this branch serves the real
map from /task-queues, so it sends the right queue and the ICP honours a
caller-supplied value. Both routes are correct, and the endpoint's version is
better: the integration filter can narrow again.

`workflow_service.bal` had two `queryParams` declarations after the merge —
wso2#834's, which strips `refresh` before it can reach a cache key, and this
branch's, which adds the work-item kinds. Kept the first and let the work-items
block mutate it, so `refresh` stays a layer instruction.

Also formatted AgentRail.tsx and StructuredValue.tsx, which were failing
`prettier --check` on this branch already.

Two things this branch still owes, neither introduced by the merge:
- `workItems.list` does not exist in the workflow module's `main`, so the
  unified queue needs its module dependency to land.
- `useWorkflowInstanceGraph` still uses the blocking request helper, so a first
  load waits on the poll inside the request instead of reporting `fetching`.
Two users deciding one human task both got 202, then both got 200, and only one
decision took effect. The runtime cannot arbitrate it: `completeHumanTask`
checks the task is RUNNING and then sends a signal, so both callers pass the
check whenever the second signal arrives before the task workflow closes, and a
signal cannot refuse. The user whose decision was discarded was told it had
been applied.

WS-HumanTask settles this with an actual owner: a task is claimed, and its owner
completes it. There is no claim step here, so the equivalent is enforced where
the ICP does have a serialization point — the outbox. A decision's operation id
is now derived from the task it decides rather than from the caller's
idempotency key, so two decisions collide on the primary key and only the first
is ever delivered. The caller's key still makes that caller's own retry
idempotent; these are different questions and now have different keys.

The loser is told: 409, naming that someone else decided first and to refresh.
That is better than the failure this replaces — the second signal's
"already completed" error reached nobody, because it happened after the ICP had
already answered.

It is also recorded twice over, since a refusal that only exists in a response
is gone as soon as the tab closes: a WARN line in the server log, and an
unresolved `workflow_decision_conflict` event in `system_events`, beside the
unconfirmed-operation records. A per-user history of refused decisions wants a
system built for it, which this is not.

A decision whose first attempt ended FAILED or EXPIRED is not held against the
next caller — the task is still open, so a fresh row is queued under its own id.
hasithaa added a commit to hasithaa/integration-control-plane that referenced this pull request Aug 23, 2026
Both were named in the merge that brought wso2#834 in, and both are small.

The unified queue was the one listing that answered namespace-wide.
`workItems.list` is two of the scoped listings read as one, and the module's
LIST_WORK_ITEMS takes `taskQueue` like they do, so it belongs in the set that
gets narrowed to the target runtime's queue.

And the instance graph still used the blocking request helper, so it was the one
view that polled inside the request: opening the graph tab on a cold cache sat
there until the client deadline rather than reporting that it was being
prepared. It now returns a Fetchable like every other read and joins the
drawer's own loading gate.

Correcting something I wrote on the PR: `workItems.list` does not exist in the
module's `main`, but it does exist in module PR #96 — which is now green and
mergeable. This queue is waiting on that PR landing, not on unspecified module
work.
…eplaced

Two server-side halves of the same convergence problem, both found by replaying
the user journey and watching the network.

An answer produced right after a mutation can predate that mutation's own
effects: the refresh ran two seconds after a task completed, before the task's
child workflow closed, and its truthful-at-the-time snapshot then stood for a
full TTL with the completed task still pending. While the runtime is boosted —
exactly the window after a mutation — a settled answer now expires in 4s, so a
racing snapshot corrects itself on the next read, one coalesced fetch at a time.

And staleness was computed from expiry alone, but claiming a refresh pushes
expires_at out to the fetch deadline (so a dropped heartbeat re-offers the
claim). For precisely the seconds a replacement was being fetched, the old
answer reported itself fresh with its old fetchedAt — and every client that had
been correctly polling on staleness parked at the worst possible moment, two
seconds before the fresh copy landed. Stale is now expiry OR a refresh in
flight: an answer being replaced is stale by definition, whatever its clock says.
# Conflicts:
#	icp_server/database/icp_db.mv.db
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manuranga merged commit e2b448d into wso2:main Sep 2, 2026
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