I'm confused about

return_state=True

for tasks and flows. I'm wanting to return the state so that the main flow will not fail if the subflow or task fails. I have a flow with several subflows where I use

return_state=True

and get the data later with

.result()

. This works even if the subflow failed because the result ends up being the failed state (or something like that). But I'm trying to use the same pattern within a task, and as soon as I call

.result()

, the flow fails. Is this the expected behavior? Does

return_state=True

work differently for subflows and tasks?

> as soon as I call

.result()

, the flow fails. Is this the expected behavior? yes. because a

Failed

task or flow run would have an

Exception

as its result value, you're "unwrapping" that

Exception

when you call

.result()

the

State

you get back when you say

return_state=True

has methods like

is_failed()

which you can use to conditionally avoid unwrapping exception values if you want to avoid failing the calling flow