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PreTaskScript to check output path

Deadline
#1

Hello ,

I am having this issue. I want to create a PreTaskScript that checks the ouput path of the job before each task starts and delete any junk files that may be there. (the files are .lock files that i need to get rid of before the task starts) My problem is how to i make the script connect to our repo and deadline and get the ouputpath of said job.

How do pretaskscripts work in Deadline sine I find very few examples of how they are setup to be honest.

Thank you

#2

I don’t have a pre-task script for you, but here’s a quick template for a post-job script. I’m guessing they are pretty similar:

from System.IO import *
from Deadline.Scripting import *

def __main__( *args ):
    deadlinePlugin = args[0]
    job = deadlinePlugin.GetJob()
    outputDirectories = job.OutputDirectories
    outputFilenames = job.OutputFileNames

    # Make magic here
#3

yeah I have seen this before, and I am trying to go by this.

I am interested in seeing the differences and how pre-task scripts work since I can’t find ant examples of them anywhere

#4

so what i did so far is managed to get the job id from the environment variables. Now i want to use it to open a the ouput folder of that job and scan for a specific file everytime before a task starts. The problem is that i can’t get to import anything from deadline in the script so how will it know which path to open and search

#5

Also getting the TaskId in order to associate it with the file is proving to be a lot more difficult than i thought.

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