cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Data Engineering
Join discussions on data engineering best practices, architectures, and optimization strategies within the Databricks Community. Exchange insights and solutions with fellow data engineers.
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Get taskValue from job as task, and then pass it to next task.

CaptainJack
New Contributor III

I have workflow like this.

1 task: job as a task. Inside this job there is task which is seting parameter x as taskValue using dbutils.jobs.taskValues.set. 

2. task dependent on previous job as a task. I would like to access this parameter x. I tried to do dynamic job parameter like {{tasks.task1.x}} and then dbutils.widgets.get(x) but this taskValue is not detected in dynamic parameters. 

Any Idea how could I pass this taskValue or make it job parameter?

4 REPLIES 4

NandiniN
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hi, 

Can you please try dbutils.jobs.taskValues.get()

https://docs.databricks.com/en/workflows/jobs/share-task-context.html#using-task-values

Thanks!

NandiniN
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

https://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/databricks-utils.html#dbutils-jobs-taskvalues-set

dbutils.jobs.taskValues.set(key = 'name', value = 'Some User')
dbutils.jobs.taskValues.set(key = "age", value = 30)

https://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/databricks-utils.html#get-command-dbutilsjobstaskvaluesget

dbutils.jobs.taskValues.get(taskKey = "my-task", \
key = "my-key", \
default = 7, \
debugValue = 42)

dbutils.jobs.taskValues.get(taskKey = "my-task", \
key = "my-key", \
default = 7, \
debugValue = 42)

dbutils.jobs.taskValues.get(taskKey = "my-task", \
key = "my-key", \
default = 7, \
debugValue = 42)

CaptainJack
New Contributor III

I tried this approach and it only works when I am passing value from normal notebook task to another task / job. But when I have "job as task" as source, then it is not working. Maybe I am missing something.

I did experiment with 2 tasks passing parameters to destination task. First task was normal notebook task, second was job as a task and it did not work there.

NandiniN
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

I see, I have requested for someone else to guide you on this.

cc: @Retired_mod 

Connect with Databricks Users in Your Area

Join a Regional User Group to connect with local Databricks users. Events will be happening in your city, and you won’t want to miss the chance to attend and share knowledge.

If there isn’t a group near you, start one and help create a community that brings people together.

Request a New Group