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[Feature Request] Deprecate list workflow methods?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, grpc

Research direction

Start with temporal/api/workflowservice/v1/service.proto lines 356-389 and review the definitions for ListOpenWorkflowExecutions and ListClosedWorkflowExecutions alongside the other listed methods. Determine which methods should be deprecated and whether archived workflows remain covered by ListWorkflowExecutions; done means the deprecation scope and retained methods are clearly resolved in the API definition.

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Description

enhancement
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I heard we might want to deprecate some of these:

https://github.com/temporalio/api/blob/8f89bdc358642e1358876f164c7f4e663e225117/temporal/api/workflowservice/v1/service.proto#L356-L389

Users get surprised by the limitations of ListOpen/ListClosed (example).

Describe the solution you'd like

Mark deprecated these:

  • ListOpenWorkflowExecutions
  • ListClosedWorkflowExecutions

And keep these?

  • ListWorkflowExecutions
  • ListArchivedWorkflowExecutions (assuming you can't get archived workflows from ListWorkflowExecutions?)
  • ScanWorkflowExecutions (if it's important to have an unordered option?)
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Go
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Forks
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Merged PRs (30d)
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