Hi all is it possible to get the state of a running flow fro

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Hi all is it possible to get the state of a running flow from the Flow object or FlowRunner

Zachary Hughes · Answer

Hi < Jacques> I m asking the team now hope to have an answer for you in just a sec slightly smiling face

Jacques · Answer

Awesome thanks

Zachary Hughes · Answer

Back with an answer We don t persist the state object anywhere unless you re using one of our orchestration solutions Prefect Server or Prefect Cloud So my recommendation would be to either use Prefect Server or if you really just care about the result of the first task and not the state of it a result handler could do the trick

Zachary Hughes · Answer

If neither of those works for you you could also use a state handler to persist the information you need in some sort of stored memory location But that feels a bit less clean to me

Jacques · Answer

Cheers will pursue the result handler route thanks for the crazy quick feedback

Zachary Hughes · Answer

Sure thing Don t hesitate to reach out if you have any additional questions

Jacques · Answer

Just in case you are interested I think I found a slightly cleaner to me at least way to do this I m saving the page token my flow is paging through an API with dynamic page tokens and saving the results to bigquery I get as part of the extract task actual data from API goes through normal flow chain in a class variable so self page token= in my Task then looking at the flow tasks outside the thread for page tokens then starting new flows to deal with additional pages

Jacques · Answer

seems to work well no idea if this is a terrible thing to do slightly smiling face

Zachary Hughes · Answer

Awesome I m glad that s working well for you