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Is there a possibility to access variables that were defined in tasks in the state handler?

For example, in each task of a mapped task, I want to make a notification about the state change. And in that notication I would like to add a system id that is different for each task instance of the mapped task.

Does somebody know how to access a variable from the task within the state handler?

Hey <@U0176BCNXEV>,
After testing this a bit, we can definitely <https://docs.prefect.io/core/concepts/notifications.html#responding-to-state|respond to the result> of a task using a state handler especially for failed mapped tasks (even the underlying context), but I don't think we have access to individual variables within that task because of the Hybrid Model. I believe we'd have to explicitly expose this variable to pass between task states to utilize the state handler in this way.

I think there's a way to accomplish this with a combination of logging, state signals, and a state handler, but that feels messy. I will continue to think about ways to accomplish this functionality in a clean way.

This has not a high prio atm, as I already implemented a work around within each task.

However, it would be a great feature to be able to use the state handler for this in an intuitive way :slightly_smiling_face: