Hi all, Playing with Prefect for some time now and I love it so far. I have a question regarding passing data in a flow to all tasks. Let's say I have a task A that returns some data (I know it returns actually a task object) that I want to use through all future tasks. I can pass the result as a parameter to all of the tasks but if I have this situation with more than 5 parameters (the return data from 5 tasks A-E) it's getting ugly and hard to maintain. Is there a way to set the values as global somehow (I've tried using context but without success) like in an OOP approach?

There is no way to share task return values globally. But if all you do is passing specifically Parameter values, then you could redesign your Parameter to make it a dictionary - instead of having 5 Parameter tasks you would have only one that contains all key value pairs in a single dictionary.

@Anna Geller like this? parameter = { "a" = taskA, "b" = taskB } taskC(parameter)

I thought you meant Prefect Parameter when you said parameter? 😄 but both would work provided they are passed properly as data dependencies

from prefect import task, Parameter, Flow


@task
def do_sth_based_on_params(x):
    # do sth with x
    pass


with Flow("param") as flow:
    par = Parameter("param_name", default=dict(key1="value1", key2="value2", key3="value3"))
    do_sth_based_on_params(par)