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kenmyers-8451 · ‎05-19-2025

I am trying to make a reusable workflow where I can run a merge script for any number of tables. The idea is I tell the workflow the table name and/or path to it and it can reference that in the file path field. The simplified idea is below:

resources:
  jobs:
    test_workflow:
      name: test_workflow
      description: some workflow
      tasks:
        - task_key: run_sql_file
          sql_task:
            file:
              path: ${workspace.file_path}/{{job.parameters.sql_directory}}/{{job.parameters.table_name}}.sql
              source: WORKSPACE
            warehouse_id: ${var.serverless_sql_warehouse_ID}
      queue:
        enabled: true
      parameters:
        - name: sql_directory
          default: "path/to/sql"
        - name: table_name
          default: ""  # this one I change when running the task or when calling this workflow from another workflow

However this doesn't work. ${workspace.file_path} is able to be formatted as expected but {{job.parameters.sql_directory}} and {{job.parameters.table_name}} are not able to be formatted, they don't dynamically update and they stay written exactly as is with the curly braces.

I'm wondering if there is anyway around this or to make this happen?

Bhaskar27 · ‎05-20-2025

Hi @kenmyers-8451

From what I know, you can't mix ${} and {{}} variable styles in the SQL file path. A better approach would be to pass the full SQL file path as a single job parameter, and update its value when triggering the job.

kenmyers-8451 · ‎05-20-2025

Thanks @Bhaskar27 , unfortunately this doesn't work

path: {{job.parameters.merge_file_path}}

I get a yaml error when I try to deploy because "key is not a scalar". So it seems like it is not possible to use this kind of dynamic variable for the sql_task file path.

Edit: just in case this issue was fixed in a newer version, I upgraded my CLI to 0.252.0 (latest version right now) and I get the same error.