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Pipeline (Nested execution)

You can nest DCC invocations with a pipe section inside steps.

Example

from puzzle2.Puzzle import Puzzle

p = Puzzle("pipeTest", new=True)

steps = [
  {"step": "pre", "tasks": [{"module": "tasks.win.open_file"}]},
  {"step": "main", "tasks": [{"module": "tasks.win.export_file"}]},
  {"step": "pipe",
   "pipe": {"app": "mayapy", "version": "2024"},
   "sys_path": r"C:\\path\\to\\tests_data",
   "tasks": [
     {"step": "pipe.pre",
      "tasks": [
        {"module": "tasks.win.open_file",
         "data_key_replace": {"open_path": "context.OpenFile.update_context_test"}}
      ]}
   ]},
]

data = {
  "pre": {"open_path": "somewhere"},
  "common": {"A": 123},
  "main": [{"name": "nameA"}],
  "pipe.pre": {"open_path": "A"},
}

p.play(steps, data)