Var containing var to be replaced later?

[leobenkel]

so imagine the main Taskfile and a child child.Taskfile.yml:

child.Taskfile.yml:

version: '3'
#...

tasks:
#...
   vars:
        FOO: "{{.FOO | default '' }}"
   cmds:
      - {{DO_SOMETHING}}

so the parent might want to do something like:

Taskfile.yml

#...

includes:
  utils:
    taskfile: child.Taskfile.yml
    vars:
       DO_SOMETHING: echo "{{.FOO}}"
#...

That way when the child task is called, it can leverage the locally available variable.

From my experiment, and that make sense, FOO is being replaced before it is available.
I have also tried DO_SOMETHING: echo "\{\{.FOO\}\}" in the hope it would be evaluated later but no luck.

Is that possible today?

specifically useful to handle utilities for aws queries that might have dynamic arguments