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r
I think this has been asked multiple times but maybe there is not an answer. Is there any way, hack or otherwise to get task parameters in a state? When a mapped task fails I need to be able to catch the failure so I can put the 'id' into the list so I can come back later and actually do something. For example, in the following working example, I would like the 'item' to be available. Otherwise maybe the way is to re-iterate through the results in the linear list in a new unmapped task and fix up the failed errors?
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from time import sleep

from prefect.engine import state
from prefect import task, Task, Flow, context
import prefect

from prefect.engine.executors import LocalDaskExecutor, LocalExecutor


def ignore_timeout_handler(task, old_state, new_state):
    print(f"{prefect.context.parameters} old {old_state} new {new_state}")
    if new_state.is_failed() and isinstance(new_state, state.TimedOut):
        return_state = state.Success(result={"state": "forced ok"})
    else:
        return_state = new_state
    return return_state


@task
def produce_range():
    return range(5, 10)


class SlowTask(Task):
    def run(self, item, sleep_time=9, **kwopts):
        sleep(sleep_time)
        # doing stuff with a host called 'item'
        return item


with Flow("Slow flow") as flow:
    slow_task = SlowTask(timeout=6, max_retries=2, retry_delay=2, state_handlers=[ignore_timeout_handler])
    nrange = produce_range()
    result = slow_task.map(item=nrange,
                           sleep_time=nrange)

# executor = LocalDaskExecutor(scheduler="threads", num_workers=10)
executor = LocalExecutor()
for ii in flow.run(executor=executor).result[result].result:
    print(ii)
k
Hey @Rob Fowler , Apologies, what would your ideal solution be here? To expose the 
item
value to the State Handler or the logger/context? Certainly your proposed idea is viable, perhaps a task that collects these values upon mapped failure for later iteration.
r
yes, the idea of iterating in a second task will work but ideally I'd like to mutate the list so the error gets {'itemid': 123, 'error': state.Timeout(.. }
if the state handler runs in the same space as the process surely the task itself is present somewhere. I notice I am not the only one with this issue so far.
ideal solution: prefect.context.parameters have {'itemid': 123} or old_state have the params, with it being OK for new_state to have mashed them
actually ideal would be 'new_state.task_params' having {'itemid': 123} Sorry for typing and thinking on the run.
big picture is I have a list of tasks (winrm remote calls. Being windows it's all flakey as anything else MS), quite a few of the time out. I just want to record the hosts that timeout and not fail the flow but I do want a record of the failed hosts. Unlike ansible, all my code at scale must deal with the bad as much as the good.
k
Do you mean logging the argument you passed to the child task in a state handler? Maybe something like this:
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from prefect import context

def capture_error_params(task, old_state, new_state):
    if new_state.is_failed():
        <http://logger.info|logger.info>(
            f"\nFailed child task parameter value: {context.parameters.get('name')}\n")
    # ^ you can 'get' any arg you passed to the task    

    return new_state
r
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context.parameters
is always empty
in my example above, that would be 100% cool it it worked
[2021-01-05 01:44:41] INFO - prefect.FlowRunner | Beginning Flow run for 'Slow flow'
[2021-01-05 01:44:41] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'produce_range': Starting task run...
[2021-01-05 01:44:41] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'produce_range': finished task run for task with final state: 'Success'
[2021-01-05 01:44:41] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask': Starting task run...
{} old <Pending> new <Mapped: "Ready to proceed with mapping.">
[2021-01-05 01:44:41] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask': finished task run for task with final state: 'Mapped'
[2021-01-05 01:44:41] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[0]': Starting task run...
{} old <Pending> new <Running: "Starting task run.">
{} old <Running: "Starting task run."> new <Success: "Task run succeeded.">
[2021-01-05 01:44:46] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[0]': finished task run for task with final state: 'Success'
[2021-01-05 01:44:46] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[1]': Starting task run...
{} old <Pending> new <Running: "Starting task run.">
{} old <Running: "Starting task run."> new <TimedOut: "Task timed out during execution.">
[2021-01-05 01:44:52] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[1]': finished task run for task with final state: 'Success'
[2021-01-05 01:44:52] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[2]': Starting task run...
{} old <Pending> new <Running: "Starting task run.">
{} old <Running: "Starting task run."> new <TimedOut: "Task timed out during execution.">
[2021-01-05 01:44:59] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[2]': finished task run for task with final state: 'Success'
[2021-01-05 01:44:59] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[3]': Starting task run...
{} old <Pending> new <Running: "Starting task run.">
{} old <Running: "Starting task run."> new <TimedOut: "Task timed out during execution.">
[2021-01-05 01:45:05] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[3]': finished task run for task with final state: 'Success'
[2021-01-05 01:45:05] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[4]': Starting task run...
{} old <Pending> new <Running: "Starting task run.">
{} old <Running: "Starting task run."> new <TimedOut: "Task timed out during execution.">
[2021-01-05 01:45:11] INFO - prefect.TaskRunner | Task 'SlowTask[4]': finished task run for task with final state: 'Success'
[2021-01-05 01:45:11] INFO - prefect.FlowRunner | Flow run SUCCESS: all reference tasks succeeded
5
{'state': 'forced ok'}
{'state': 'forced ok'}
{'state': 'forced ok'}
{'state': 'forced ok'}
sorry for the large paste. not used to slack after using the dumpster fire that is teams for the last year
k
Ha, no problem! Hmm, interestingā€¦
r
so params are meant to be in there? If this is a bug that would be great
k
This may be a bug, so I may have to get back to you on this. Thanks for bringing this to our attention! Will let you know when I have more answers.
OK I believe we found a bug! šŸ› Please feel free to open an issue on this, otherwise I will open one first thing in the morning. Thanks again! hero
r
OK, I'll open an issue with my test program after lunch (down here in Sydney), thanks again. (I'm on holidays so I am working on this for an idea at work LOL)
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