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taipy.core.Task

Bases: _Entity

Hold a user function that will be executed, its parameters and the results.

A Task brings together the user code as function, the inputs and the outputs as data nodes (instances of the DataNode class).

Attributes:

Name Type Description
config_id str

The identifier of the TaskConfig.

function callable

The python function to execute. The function must take as parameter the data referenced by inputs data nodes, and must return the data referenced by outputs data nodes.

input Union[DataNode, List[DataNode]]

The list of inputs.

output Union[DataNode, List[DataNode]]

The list of outputs.

id str

The unique identifier of the task.

parent_id str

The identifier of the parent (pipeline_id, scenario_id, cycle_id) or None.

scope: Scope property

Retrieve the lowest scope of the task based on its data nodes.

Returns:

Type Description
Scope

Scope^: Lowest scope present in input and output data nodes or GLOBAL if there are either no input or no output.

submit(callbacks=None, force=False, wait=False, timeout=None)

Submit the task for execution.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
callbacks List[Callable]

The list of callable functions to be called on status change.

None
force bool

Force execution even if the data nodes are in cache.

False
wait bool

Wait for the scheduled job created from the task submission to be finished in asynchronous mode.

False
timeout Union[float, int]

The maximum number of seconds to wait for the job to be finished before returning.

None