Add command to get a workflow execution history given an app-id and instance-id

[jjcollinge]

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Collinge [email protected]

Description

Adds a simple command to fetch a specific workflow history execution given an app id and instance id. It does this by using the actor state store directly to fetch and compile the state.

TODO: Wrap the history objects in a top level object.

dapr workflow get-history --app-id test --instance-id 22e7f013-6bca-4b36-8474-23e15c97af75

dapr client initializing for: 127.0.0.1:50001
{
  "eventId": -1,
  "timestamp": "2025-09-05T13:17:20.046821632Z",
  "orchestratorStarted": {}
}
{
  "eventId": -1,
  "timestamp": "2025-09-05T13:17:20.030790298Z",
  "executionStarted": {
    "name": "SimpleWorkflow",
    "orchestrationInstance": {
      "instanceId": "56a4e807-5b5e-4aff-aefa-e8c4deb5ecef",
      "executionId": "857556f5-8b84-4289-bb47-b5b8a97c53a1"
    }
  },
  "router": {
    "sourceAppID": "performance-app"
  }
}
{
  "timestamp": "2025-09-05T13:17:20.048880840Z",
  "taskScheduled": {
    "name": "TenMSActivity",
    "input": "{\"name\":\"John\"}",
    "taskExecutionId": "4683256b-0495-4f2b-9bb0-84c33f4bf613"
  },
  "router": {
    "sourceAppID": "performance-app"
  }
}
{
  "eventId": -1,
  "timestamp": "2025-09-05T13:17:20.063432465Z",
  "orchestratorStarted": {}
}
{
  "eventId": -1,
  "timestamp": "2025-09-05T13:17:20.060736465Z",
  "taskCompleted": {
    "result": "{\"startTime\":\"2025-09-05T13:17:20.054144965Z\",\"endTime\":\"2025-09-05T13:17:20.060429965Z\",\"success\":true,\"message\":\"Hello John!\"}",
    "taskExecutionId": "4683256b-0495-4f2b-9bb0-84c33f4bf613"
  },
  "router": {
    "sourceAppID": "performance-app"
  }
}
{
  "eventId": 1,
  "timestamp": "2025-09-05T13:17:20.064046882Z",
  "executionCompleted": {
    "orchestrationStatus": "ORCHESTRATION_STATUS_COMPLETED",
    "result": "{\"success\":true,\"activityHistory\":[{\"activityName\":\"SayHelloWorldActivity3\",\"activityType\":\"activity\",\"startTime\":\"2025-09-05T13:17:20.054144965Z\",\"endTime\":\"2025-09-05T13:17:20.060429965Z\"}]}"
  },
  "router": {
    "sourceAppID": "performance-app"
  }
}

We could easily expand the dapr workflow command to support the following actions based on the go-sdk:

• Terminate
• RaiseEvent
• SuspendWorkflow
• ResumeWorkflow
• PurgeWorkflow

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[JoshVanL]

@jjcollinge please open a PR for the docs

[jjcollinge]

Will do, also going to make the output valid JSON.

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