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Adding task parameters

One of the goals that you should aim for when building your tasks is to make them as reusable as possible. A simple way to reuse a task in different contexts is to add parameters to them. You can then substitute the values of those parameters in the steps that compose your task.

Making the Hello task more reusable

For this first example, you can create a new file called hello-param.yaml in which you will copy the content of the existing hello.yaml file.

The goal is now to make this task reusable in different contexts. Instead of simply always outputting Hello World, we now want it to say hello to anyone, not just the world.

Parameters are added in the spec section of the task. This new params field will contain a list of parameters. For each parameter, you will add a name and a type. The type can be either string or array.

In this case, there will be a single parameter named who, and it will be of type string:

  params: 
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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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