wait_for_external_event Task result adds double quotes within the result attribute

[legendof-selda]

🐛 Raise Event adds " in result
When we raise an event from an activity, when picked up by the orchestrator function double quotes are added in result attribute.

The Orchestration function

def orchestrator_function(context: df.DurableOrchestrationContext):
  result = yield context.call_activity("CheckData", "blob_name")
  approval_code = yield context.call_activity("AskApproval", {"email": email, "instance_id": context.instance_id})
  timeout_task = context.create_timer(expiration)
  approval_approved_task = context.wait_for_external_event("RequestApproved")
  approval_rejected_task = context.wait_for_external_event("RequestRejected")
  final_status = None
  winner = yield context.task_any([approval_approved_task, approval_rejected_task, timeout_task])
  if winner == approval_approved_task or winner == approval_rejected_task:
    approved = winner == approval_approved_task and approval_approved_task.result == approval_code
    if not timeout_task.is_completed:
      timeout_task.cancel()
  if approved:
    final_status = yield context.call_activity("ApproveBlobFile", blob)
  return [approval_code , result, final_status]

main = df.Orchestrator.create(orchestrator_function)

The ApprovalTrigger which is a QueueTrigger function

import azure.functions as func
import azure.durable_functions as df


async def main(msg: func.QueueMessage, starter: str) -> None:
    logging.info('Python queue trigger function processed a queue item: %s',
                 msg.get_body().decode('utf-8'))
    client = df.DurableOrchestrationClient(starter)
    msg = msg.get_json()
    if msg["approval"] is True:
        event_name = "RequestApproved"
    else:
        event_name = "RequestRejected"
    await client.raise_event(instance_id=msg["instance_id"], event_name=event_name, event_data=msg["approval_code"])

And yes, in queue the double quotes are not being added. Its being added when the orchestrator receives the event.

🤔 Expected behavior
approval_approved_task.result must give out result '<approval_code>' not '"<approval_code>"'. For now we can use approval_approved_task.result.replace('\"','') == approval_code

☕ Steps to reproduce

What Durable Functions patterns are you using, if any?
This is actually a sub orchestration function. The parent orchestration simply list all the files in the blob and runs this sub orchestration for each blob
Try raising any event from an external df activity
Its run locally. Will try to deploy to Azure soon and share the Orchestration instance ID with it.

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[davidmrdavid]

Hi @legendof-selda,

Thank you for reaching out! Yes, we've recently seen issues where strings appear to receive an extra set of quotes; although I haven't seen it in occur in the case of external events yet. I'm relieved to hear that there's a straightforward workaround though.

We're soon to plan for an upcoming release. So I'll look to add this as an issue to prioritize for then!