Get Task name that fired plugin

[georgero...@gmail.com]

I've implemented a Java Tasker plugin for my app. I'm trying to get the name of the task that fired my plugin and I'm having trouble:

1. I can't seem to get any Tasker variables to be replaced. I've added the code below to EditActivity

if (TaskerPlugin.Setting.hostSupportsOnFireVariableReplacement(this))

TaskerPlugin.Setting.setVariableReplaceKeys(localeBundle,

new String[] { PluginBundleManager.BUNDLE_EXTRA_STRING_ACTION });

2. In my PluginBundleManager:

        result.putString(BUNDLE_EXTRA_STRING_ACTION, message 

         + "; Location=%LOC, caller=%caller");

as an attempt to get a variable replaced.

3. I don't know what the Tasker variable name would be for the Task name.

Can someone help me?

George

[Pent]

First can I please ask why you want the task name ?

Pent

p.s. thanks for reposting

[George Brown]

I have a plugin that can be called from several tasks. I want to know which of those tasks fired.

BTW, I figured out that I was calling setVariableReplaceKeys in EditActivity.on create and not finish. It now works. But interestingly, it replaces Tasker variables like %TRUN and %PENABLED but not %PACTIVE. Is this a bug?

George

[Pent]

BTW, I figured out that I was calling setVariableReplaceKeys in EditActivity.on create and not finish. It now works. But interestingly, it replaces Tasker variables like %TRUN and %PENABLED but not %PACTIVE. Is this a bug?

%PACTIVE is probabaly not set at the time it was replaced.

Pent

[George Brown]

Where/when does %PACTIVE get set? %PENABLED is set. To test, I created a pop up and printed both variables. %PENABLED is replaced correctly, %PACTIVE is not.

George

[Pent]

Where/when does %PACTIVE get set?

See the Variables section of the Userguide.

Pent

[George Brown]

From the User's Guide.

Profiles Active (dynamic) 
%PACTIVE
A comma-separated list of the currently active, named profiles in activation order. Duplicate names will appear on the list only once. The list always starts and ends with a comma to make matching easier, if it's not empty.

This description for PACTIVE (which isn't replaced) looks very similar to PENABLED (which is replaced). Only the word "enabled" and "active" are different in the two descriptions. What am I missing by just bring pointed the Variables section of the User's Guide?

George

[Berna Bap]

George, I never used this variables but I think Pent is trying to show you that:

PACTIVE = List of active profiles, if there is no active profiles while you read this variable the list will be empty.

PENABLED = List of enabled profiles, any profile that you have done and it is enabled will be listed here.

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[George Brown]

%PACTIVE is not replaced at all. I would have expected to have an empty list returned (per the documentation, "the list starts and ends with a comma to make parsing easier") as opposed to the literal string "%PACTIVE". That indicates to me that the variable never gets replaced as opposed to no active profiles. Do I need to check for the variable name as a value to indicate that the list is empty and that there are no active profiles?

That being said, wouldn't there be at least one active profile at the time my task was fired - namely the one that actually caused my task to fire? In my case, I have a Geofence Inside event.

George

[Pent]

See 'Uninitialized Variables' in the Variables section of the Userguide.

Pent

[George Brown]

Per your response (read "Uninitialized Variables" in the User's Guide) and my response below, am I to conclude that this is an error in the documentation quoted below stating that Tasker supports the global variable %PACTIVE when it really doesn't, or this is a bug in Tasker and is is not replacing the global variable when it should?

George
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%PACTIVE is not replaced at all. I would have expected to have an empty list returned (per the documentation, "the list starts and ends with a comma to make parsing easier") as opposed to the literal string "%PACTIVE". That indicates to me that the variable never gets replaced as opposed to no active profiles. Do I need to check for the variable name as a value to indicate that the list is empty and that there are no active profiles?

That being said, wouldn't there be at least one active profile at the time my task was fired - namely the one that actually caused my task to fire? In my case, I have a Geofence Inside event.

George

[Berna Bap]

You forgot to quote the "IF, it's not empty"! That means if it is empty will not starts and ends with a comma, when reading this variable with no profiles active you get "%PACTIVE" as value. I have tested here and it works like described in documentation.

[Pent]

You forgot to quote the "IF, it's not empty"! That means if it is empty will not starts and ends with a comma, when reading this variable with no profiles active you get "%PACTIVE" as value. I have tested here and it works like described in documentation.

Also %PACTIVE only includes NAMED profiles.

Pent