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Is there a way to reference a task output in a result 
location
or task 
target
? I know the Prefect context gives you a bunch of variables – notably including 
parameters
, which looks promising! – but what if we have some data (the strings 
"foo"
or 
"bar"
) computed by some task 
compute_foo_or_bar
and we’d like to reference that output in a subsequent task’s output target?
This might apply if, for example, you don’t know a `LocalResult`’s 
dir
until you run some task 
compute_local_result_dir
as 
my_dir = compute_local_result_dir()
, where 
my_dir
is one of 
"foo"
, 
"bar"
, or 
"baz"
. In downstream tasks you’d want to use that 
LocalResult(dir=my_dir)
, but you don’t know which one prior to running the task.
On further reflection, I think this would be a case where you’d need to go beyond the 
@task
utility and start using class-based tasks? Otherwise you get into some really funky business with 
@task
-decorated tasks yielding a parameterized 
@task
.
k
You can template the target with inputs into the task. But you can also use callables here . You might need to create that location in another task though and pass it in as a variable input . You can then template with that variable input
You can template with task inputs like this
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