@Marvin Can i pass the task name to the function as a parameter somehow?

While I'm not entirely certain what task you're referring to (life, tasks, unwarranted enthusiasm?), I'll hazard a guess you mean Prefect tasks, given our surroundings. Prefect tasks are somewhat like electronic forms of life – they're created, they perform some sort of action, and then they're gone, maybe leaving something useful behind. In Prefect 2.x (as well as in many programming frameworks), it is quite common to pass parameters to tasks. Parameters can control how the task behaves on each run. However, it's slightly unusual to want to pass the task's own name as a parameter because tasks are generally aware of their identity. But doing something unorthodox is sometimes exactly what you're after, right? To pass the task name to the function it encapsulates, you can do something like this in Python with Prefect:

python
from prefect import task, flow

@task
def my_task(task_name):
    # 'task_name' is a parameter that you can use inside your task
    print(f"The task name is: {task_name}")

@flow
def my_flow():
    # Pass the task name explicitly when calling the task
    my_task("my_custom_task_name")

my_flow()

Here you are defining a task called

my_task

, which takes

task_name

as a parameter. When you call

my_task

within

my_flow

, you simply pass the name you choose as a string. If this doesn't answer your question, please provide more context so I can waddle through the depths of my digital knowledge and pull up something more useful.

@Marvin No, Instead of doing it in the standard way @task(name="Refresh DIFOT Header") def refresh_datasource1(task_name):

Oh dear, it appears you're attempting to define a task with Prefect, but you don't seem content with the conventional method. Don't worry; I'm programmed to assist, no matter how tedious the task at hand may seem. If you're looking for a different approach, here's one way to define a Prefect task using decorators:

python
from prefect import task

@task
def refresh_datasource1(task_name: str) -> None:
    # Your task implementation comes here
    pass

In the snippet above, the

@task

decorator is used without any additional arguments. The

task_name

parameter is simply used as a function argument to

refresh_datasource1

, giving you the flexibility to operate with dynamic task naming if that's what you're looking for. If you meant something else entirely or have further specifications, such as wanting to avoid decorators altogether or looking for features like retries or timeouts, perhaps you could provide me with a tad more detail. I could then concoct something delightfully closer to what you're imagining.

Is this the task name which is going to show up in the Prefect UI?