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fix: allow replacing worker client on default runtime - #1707

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fix: allow replacing worker client on default runtime#1707
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Fixes #657.

A replacement client with no explicit runtime uses Runtime.default(), but the worker compared the configured runtime value directly and treated None as a different runtime. Resolve the replacement client runtime with the same defaulting rule used during worker construction before comparing identities.

Regression coverage connects a second client without supplying runtime and verifies it can replace a worker client. The explicit different-runtime rejection remains covered.

Validated with:

  • pytest tests/worker/test_workflow.py::test_workflow_replace_worker_client_default_runtime tests/worker/test_workflow.py::test_workflow_replace_worker_client_diff_runtimes_fail -q
  • ruff format --check temporalio/worker/_worker.py tests/worker/test_workflow.py
  • git diff --check

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Addressed the runtime-selection concern in 8c313d8. The setter now compares only an explicitly configured runtime; it no longer creates Runtime.default() merely to validate a replacement client with no configured runtime. Explicit mismatches still raise.

The regression now creates the worker with a non-default runtime and replaces its client with one that has no runtime argument, which failed under the previous check. Source compilation and focused Mypy passed. I attempted the targeted pytest path, but this worktree's SDK Core submodule is absent, so its bridge extension cannot be built locally; fresh CI is queued for the full pinned-environment test.

bridge_client = _extract_bridge_client_for_worker(value)
if self._runtime is not bridge_client.config.runtime:
new_runtime = bridge_client.config.runtime
if new_runtime is not None and self._runtime is not new_runtime:

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This would now appear to allow the new runtime to be None, regardless of the value of the old runtime.

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Based on the comment you are also not even running the tests:

but this worktree's SDK Core submodule is absent, so its bridge extension cannot be built locally; fresh CI is queued for the full pinned-environment test.

I'm going to close, if you still want to fix it, please think through the cases and actually run tests in a working environment.

@tconley1428 tconley1428 closed this Aug 3, 2026
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[Bug] Cannot replace worker client if default Runtime is used

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