Hey I am executing a flow run from a deployment via client E

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Hey I am executing a flow run from a deployment via client Everything runs locally with default storage configuration After the flow finished succesfully I request the state and try to access the result but `state result ` only returns ` Result key= 82ecff4d3a454e77b08b5ce93e1dd418 filesystem document id=UUID af2119c0 c631 45ed af6a 0cff1cf396a5 ` I tried different return value types for the flow str dict What am I missing here How can I easily access the return value of a succesful flow run Thank you

Khuyen Tran · Answer

You can return a state from a task run by adding `return state=True` <https docs prefect io concepts states return prefect state>

Hanno Küpers · Answer

How would we use it to access flow run results In the end we used `from prefect results retrieve result state ` to access the result objects It works for us but does not seem to be right

Khuyen Tran · Answer

When you say results do you mean a Python object or your mean a Prefect Future object

Khuyen Tran · Answer

by default a task run will return a Python object You can get the result of the last task run in a flow by adding `return` at the end ``` task def my task return 2 flow def my flow a = my task return a a = my flow print a 2```

Hanno Küpers · Answer

Sorry by result I mean the python object that is returned by the flow It seemed to work when the flow was executed directly similarly to what you show here but I had problems accessing the objects from flow runs originating from deployments