[SDK Sentinel] Allow activity retry delay test to complete

[sdk-sentinel-bot]

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Summary

• CI evidence: failed CI job · workflow run · first known failure

The Java 11 CLI-backed suite timed out in ActivityNextRetryDelayTest.activityNextRetryDelay while waiting for its workflow result ([first captured failure](https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-java/actions/runs/31753323140/job/94623675320)). No preceding equivalent success was captured. Breaking changes: none. Server PR: none.

Root cause

The test intentionally requests one-, two-, and three-second retry delays but inherits a ten-second rule deadline. Service and scheduler latency stretched the first retry interval beyond five seconds, leaving too little budget for the final attempt; JUnit interrupted the history long poll.

Fix

Give this test a 30-second rule deadline. Retry behavior and the existing timing assertions remain unchanged, while transient service latency can no longer terminate the test before those assertions run.

Validation

The focused class passed on Java 11 against a loopback Temporal CLI, and an adjusted spotlessCheck testClasses passed. Exact repository validation was attempted but the sandbox blocked writes to .git/modules; the trusted unchanged baseline passed it. The pinned CLI job and trusted patch validation remain required.

Validation status: validation-incomplete

• Flake confidence: high
• Fix confidence: medium
• Value: medium
• Patch scope: standard — 1 changed file; 786 B
• Local reproduction: not-reproduced — The unchanged focused CLI-backed class passed locally; the captured load-induced delay did not recur.
• Regression coverage: pass-after-only — The existing focused Java 11 CLI-backed test passed after the test-scoped timeout change; no new test was required.
• Unchanged baseline (Gradle formatting and test-source compilation) — passed
• Independent candidate (Gradle formatting and test-source compilation) — did not pass (failure)

Investigator-run checks

• USE_EXTERNAL_SERVICE=true TEMPORAL_SERVICE_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1:7233 ./gradlew --offline --no-daemon :temporal-sdk:test --tests 'io.temporal.activity.ActivityNextRetryDelayTest' -PtestJavaVersion=11 -x :temporal-serviceclient:initSubmodules -x :temporal-serviceclient:updateSubmodules -x :temporal-sdk:compileJava17Java -x :temporal-sdk:compileJava21Java — passed; 1 attempt(s). Both activity and local-activity cases passed on Java 11 against the loopback Temporal CLI.
• .ci-flake-runtime/input/validate.sh — failed; 1 attempt(s). Failed before candidate compilation because the sandbox denied writes to .git/modules; the trusted unchanged-checkout baseline passed the same command.
• ./gradlew --offline --no-daemon spotlessCheck testClasses -x test -x :temporal-serviceclient:initSubmodules -x :temporal-serviceclient:updateSubmodules — passed; 1 attempt(s). Formatting and test-class compilation passed when only the sandbox-blocked submodule metadata tasks were excluded.

Required target CI

• Trusted patch validation with writable submodule metadata.
• Continuous Integration / Unit test with CLI using Java 11 and the pinned dev-server profile.

Residual risks

• The precise concurrent-suite latency was not reproduced.
• Local validation used Temporal CLI 1.7.2 rather than CI's pinned 1.7.4.
• The canonical candidate check requires trusted execution because this sandbox cannot update .git/modules metadata.

Automation provenance

• Investigator workflow
• Base SHA: 7cf35351b27a3a7af17b4fadd4d281893a96580f

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SDK Sentinel recurrence history

• Unique failed CI run attempts: 6
• First occurrence: 2026-08-13 23:33 UTC
• Latest occurrence: 2026-08-21 21:08 UTC
• Recent occurrences:
  • 2026-08-21 21:08 UTC — failed CI job
  • 2026-08-21 20:22 UTC — failed CI job
  • 2026-08-21 20:04 UTC — failed CI job
  • 2026-08-21 19:34 UTC — failed CI job
  • 2026-08-21 19:16 UTC — failed CI job
  • 2026-08-13 23:33 UTC — failed CI job

[CLAassistant]

All committers have signed the CLA.

[dplyukhin]

@sdk-sentinel-bot Remove the upper bound on the duration, count the number of attempts, and make the fallback retry policy shorter.

[sdk-sentinel-bot]

Adjusted the tests as requested: duration assertions now have no upper bound, both cases assert exactly four invocations, and the fallback retry policy starts at 100 ms. Both Java 11 CLI-backed cases and the focused formatting/test compilation check pass. Trusted validation and pinned Java 11 CLI CI remain required.

Updated the PR at 20fc52a2110d.

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