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*Terminal state handler* Is there any way (or a plan to enable) handling the terminal state of a flow run? i.e. run some custom code on flow run termination and do something with the terminal state.
(Prefect *v2*)

Or if not, a reliable way to get the state of the Flow after all tasks have executed, whether successful or not.

Right now I'm considering calling the flow as a subflow, just so I can get its terminal state out programmatically...

Like including `return_state=True` on the flow call?

Yes for deployed runs (running on `KubernetesJob`)

Right now what I'm trying:
1. Have some task `dummy.submit(wait_for=list_of_tasks_I_care_about).wait()` and use the result of that to determine the final state (with some extra logic as Task State != Flow State.
2. As I said above, just call the whole flow from another flow and get it's state.

Is that what you mean you’re doing for 1.?

I'm doing this:
```@task
def important_task():
    return True

@task
def dummy():
    return

@task
def insert_state_to_db(state):
    ...

@flow
def myflow():
    a = important_task.submit()
    terminal_state = dummy.submit(wait_for=[a]).wait().state.name
    insert_state_to_db(terminal_state)```

I need the dummy in between, because I want `insert_state_to_db` to run regardless.

I know I can return a state from the flow, but I can't access that information without using the Orion API.