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Yes meant to ask for consistency of referencing to task results. So it’s task(task_name) regardless of where. 

One use case in favor of this is tooling: I refactor workflow with an automated tool which wants to automatically rename the task name EVERYWHERE. You guys know well by now that renaming the task is a source of too many frustrating errors :)

What other think? 

DZ. 

On Sep 3, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Renat Akhmerov <rakhmerov at mirantis.com> wrote:

> 
>> On 02 Sep 2015, at 21:01, Dmitri Zimine <dzimine at stackstorm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Agree, 
>> 
>> with one detail: make it explicit -  task(task_name). 
> 
> So do you suggest we just replace res() with task() and it looks like
> 
> task() - get task result when we are in “publish”
> task(task_name) - get task result from anywhere
> 
> ?
> 
> Is that correct you mean we must always specify a task name? The reason I’d like to have a simplified form (w/o task name) is that I see a lot of workflows that we have to repeat task name in publish so that it just look too verbose to me. Especially in case of very long task name.
> 
> Consider something like this:
> 
> tasks:
>   get_volumes_by_names:
>     with-items: name in <% $.vol_names %>
>     workflow: get_volume_by_name name=<% $.name %>
>     publish:
>       volumes: <% $.get_volumes_by_names %>
> 
> So in publish we have to repeat a task name, there’s no other way now. I’d like to soften this requirement, but if you still want to use task names you’ll be able to.
> 
> 
>> res - we often see folks confused by result of what (action, task, workflow) although we cleaned up our lingo: action-output, task-result, workflow-output…. but still worth being explicit.
>> 
>> And full result is being thought as the root context $.
>> 
>> Publishing to global context may be ok for now, IMO.
> 
> Not sure what you meant by "Publishing to global context”. Can you clarify please?
> 
> 
> Renat Akhmerov
> @ Mirantis Inc.
> 
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