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Temporal Workflow message passing - Signals, Queries, & Updates | Temporal Platform Documentation

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Signals, Queries, and Updates facilitate interactions with Workflow Executions.

On this page Workflows can be thought of as stateful web services that can receive messages. The Workflow can have powerful message handlers akin to endpoints that react to the incoming messages in combination with the current state of the Workflow. Temporal supports three types of messages: Signals, Queries, and Updates: Queries are read requests. They can read the current state of the Workflow but cannot block in doing so. Signals are asynchronous write requests. They cause changes in the running Workflow, but you cannot await any response or error. Updates are synchronous, tracked write req

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