Is it possible to access the flow name from a task run context? I can use

get_run_context().flow.name

from the flow context but am unable to find an equivalent on the task level

We’d recommend passing it through to the task explicitly for now; we’re hesitant to add things to the task run context since they often need to be serialized and run somewhere distributed.

got it, thanks!

Has there been any update here? It'd be convenient in a few places to be able to get the flow name from anywhere within that flow.

What’s your use case?

One example is: the flow name is a part of a key that we use to retrieve data created by flows, to correlate data provenance. but sometimes that data is created in a @task context instead of out in the @flow toplevel

Why doesn’t passing the flow name to tasks explicitly work?

we could go through our code and add an argument to every task that touches S3 and pass in the

prefect.context

object, but that seems suboptimal

Well I wouldn’t recommend passing the full context, just the name but yeah. The problem is that the task run context needs to be as lightweight as possible so it’s scalable. For the people that don’t need the flow run metadata and have thousands of task runs the memory overhead can be pretty significant.

We also like to hide thjese sorts of details from our scientists to the extent possible and not expose the guts of the wiring, so just knowing where the data should go or come from is a part of the value add

That makes sense.

just the name works in this case, but in others we might want some other piece of info as well - flow run id, deployment id(?), etc

Well, the flow run id is attached to the task run that’s available in the context.

ParentContextAwareTask

🤔

😄 I definitely understand where you’re coming from

same 🙂