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Hey I have been having some trouble with Results i...

Jackson Maxfield Brown

07/10/2020, 9:36 PM

Hey I have been having some trouble with Results in Prefect 0.12.3 and would love input as to where I may be going wrong. For example I can't even get this working:

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from distributed import LocalCluster
from prefect import Flow, task
from prefect.engine.executors import DaskExecutor
from prefect.engine.results import LocalResult

@task(result=LocalResult(dir="single-results/"), target="hello.bytes")
def single_task():
    return list(range(100))


def pipeline(debug: bool = False):
    with Flow("example-local-results") as flow:
        items = single_task()

    cluster = LocalCluster()
    state = flow.run(executor=DaskExecutor(cluster.scheduler_address))

I have also tried adding the

checkpoint=True

but same deal. Nothing shows up.

Chris White

07/10/2020, 9:40 PM

Hey Jackson - if you’re running this locally you additionally need to set the environment variable

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PREFECT__FLOWS__CHECKPOINTING=true

to “turn on” the feature (it is enabled by default against a backend but toggleable for local runs for testing purposes)

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Jackson Maxfield Brown

07/10/2020, 9:43 PM

Ahhhhh! I don't see that anywhere on the docs for this: https://docs.prefect.io/core/concepts/results.html#persisting-user-created-results I also think it may be a bit out of date because I think

checkpointing=True

as a parameter turned into

checkpoint=True

Jackson Maxfield Brown

07/10/2020, 9:44 PM

I will make a PR to update those I get all this working

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Jackson Maxfield Brown

07/10/2020, 9:53 PM

Now that it's working related question: One of the reasons I was interested in this was to potentially push a dataset to s3 with a nice manifest (single CSV / parquet or similar) as a result of a

map

operation. I now see that stored results of

map

are all individual. Is the go-to recommendation in this situation to basically have a

map

gather_and_form_dataset

? Or is there some secret kwarg to let me store all results of a

map

together as one?

Chris White

07/10/2020, 10:01 PM

That’s a good question; I hadn’t considered that before but my first hunch is that this would work:

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@task(checkpoint=False)
def mapped_task(x):
    ...

@task(checkpoint=True, result=MyResult)
def gather_and_form_dataset(results):
    ...

Jackson Maxfield Brown

07/10/2020, 10:02 PM

Yep! I expect I will be making a custom result handler as well to do this all nicely but hoping it will be real neat

Jackson Maxfield Brown

07/10/2020, 10:02 PM

Cool thanks for all the help

Chris White

07/10/2020, 10:07 PM

for sure!

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