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For Orion, is there a way to have subflows return ...

Jack Sundberg

07/27/2022, 3:52 PM

For Orion, is there a way to have subflows return futures as they did in earlier beta versions? So something like a my_flow.submit() method for parallelism...?

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Taylor Curran

07/27/2022, 4:21 PM

Hi Jack, I can confirm there will be a way to return subflow states and allow for similar functionality to

.submit()

. We are currently writing the documentation for this and appreciate your patience during this busy time. 😊

Jack Sundberg

07/27/2022, 4:26 PM

Awesome! Thank you. Do you think this will be in today's release? (No worries if not)

Khuyen Tran

07/27/2022, 4:51 PM

Hi Jack, yes it will be in Prefect 2.0b16. I’ll paste a link here when it is available

Khuyen Tran

07/27/2022, 4:53 PM

In summary, this is how to return futures: To get a

PrefectFuture

, add

.submit()

to your task call.

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@task 
def add_one(x):
    return x + 1

@flow 
def my_flow():
    future = add_one.submit(1) # return PrefectFuture

Taylor Curran

07/27/2022, 5:11 PM

For subflows:

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result = subflow()  # int
    state = subflow(return_state=True)  # Prefect State

Jack Sundberg

07/27/2022, 5:36 PM

Perfect, thank you for this! Makes my day 100% easier 😄

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Jai P

07/27/2022, 6:36 PM

curious about this same question, so just confirming:

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subflow(return_state=True)

will return a

PrefectFuture

? or a

State

? i could also be misunderstanding the relationship between the two

Khuyen Tran

07/27/2022, 7:24 PM

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subflow(return_state=True)

will return a

State

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Khuyen Tran

07/27/2022, 7:25 PM

@Jacinto Graça @Jai P This documentation will make it clearer for you

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