How do I get the flow name at runtime I was trying prefect.context.get(‘flow_name’)

Hi @Garret Cook, did you try

prefect.context.flow_name

?

well, that seems obvious, lemme try that

Oh ok I’ll try this

Are you looking for the

flow_run_name

or the

flow_name

?

oh, I’d the flow_run_name I think, the dynamically generated one, like ‘exhausted-mongoose’

It should be available under that key then 🙂

prefect.context.flow_run_name. << that one?

Yep!

key=“{flow_run_name}/report.html”.format(flow_run_name=prefect.context.flow_run_name) yields: [root@prefect production-flows]# python3.6 client_backup_enrollment.py Traceback (most recent call last): File “client_backup_enrollment.py”, line 160, in <module> key=“{flow_run_name}/report.html”.format(flow_run_name=prefect.context.flow_run_name), AttributeError: ‘Context’ object has no attribute ‘flow_run_name’

When are you calling this?

I thought perhaps, but why doesn’t the call get deferred then? Do I need to template that string differently?

If you call it from within a task it'll be deferred but if you call it elsewhere it may not

ah, I bet that is the issue

https://docs.prefect.io/core/concepts/templating.html#where-can-i-use-templating may be useful

Lemme try that