Show tasker variables from plug

[John Doe]

Is it possible to show (in a plug) to the user the Tasker variables to be used in an editText field as Tasker does?

[Pent]

Sorry, no, I feel that passing the plugin the names of all the variables the user has
created is a minor privacy breach.

Pent

[John Doe]

Instead to pass to the plug all variables you could implement an api to simply open a dialog or something like this, without let the plug all the variables. For example you could create an ad-hoc activity with dialog theme and let the plug call startActivityForResult(). I think will help the user a lot.

[Pent]

True, but an ID for the task and action being edited would have to be passed
around so Tasker knows what variables to display for selection.

I'll keep it in mind.

Pent

[John Doe]

Is there any possibility to see that in Tasker 4.7?

[Pent]

Sorry no, not in the medium term either.

Already made too many promises in the past I have to keep :-(

Pent

[John Doe]

Ahahah you've got a long TODO list :D No problem, Pent.

[Berna Bap]

Pent, I am a little confused by this topic... I can already use any global variable in an editText field of my plugin's EditActivity: http://youtu.be/RNvnGW3zJAI

Could you elaborate why is it a privacy breach passing the plugin just the name of global variables (built in + user created)?

I understand that some variable can have sensitive informations like passwords, etc... but I thought this kind of information should be stored to local variables that is specific to the task or scene in which they are used.

 

[Pent]

Pent, I am a little confused by this topic... I can already use any global variable in an editText field of my plugin's EditActivity: http://youtu.be/RNvnGW3zJAI

Could you describe what you mean ? I have Flash disabled ATM.

Could you elaborate why is it a privacy breach passing the plugin just the name of global variables (built in + user created)?

I called it a 'minor' privacy breach.

I understand that some variable can have sensitive informations like passwords, etc... but I thought this kind of information should be stored to local variables that is specific to the task or scene in which they are used.

Probably it should, but users aren't like that.

Pent

[Berna Bap]

This minor privacy breach is just about the user created variables or the built in variables which their name are know are also included?

I think will be useful for my plugin to have a list of variables to be used like you do with Tasker, even if is just the built in variables. 

I know I can create my self this list but every time you change/add/remove some variable I will need to also update it in my app.

[John Doe]

It's the reason I asked this kind of feature. IMHO It's really worth for the user to select his variables even in a plugin activity. The use of built-in variables could be a first step however.

[Jim Becker]

As an example, the system my group uses at work has an popup window that can get master data from SAP. When the user selects a field in that window, the value is placed in the appropriate field in our app. This is one way to implement this idea.
By using this method, the variables would be maintained in Tasker and only referenced from the plugin.

[John Doe]

Any news about this point? Is it possible to let the user select at least built-in global variables from a plugin?

[Pent]

Any news about this point? Is it possible to let the user select at least built-in global variables from a plugin?

I'm working on your Material Design feature request ATM :-)

Pent

[John Doe]

How come the relevant variables passed to the plugin don't contain the plugin itself? I mean, if I create an action with plugin A and the action returns %foo, if I create another action with plugin A, %foo is not present in the array. Only Tasker variables are present (for example a variable set using the variable set action). Is it a bug?

[John Doe]

can you clarify?

[Pent]

How come the relevant variables passed to the plugin don't contain the plugin itself? I mean, if I create an action with plugin A and the action returns %foo

What exactly do you mean by 'the action returns %foo'. Where or via what call is %foo added to the returned intent ?
 
Pent

[João Dias]

Pent, I think what he means is if a plugin action returns a variable and then that variable is not used in a Tasker action somewhere, then it won't show up in another plugin action. If the variable is used in a Tasker action (like a flash for example) then it'll show up in another plugin action.

Hope this helps.

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[John Doe]

How? Using the usual way to say to Tasker that the action will return a relevant variable. Nothing strange.  Something like that in the plugin edit activity:

   if ( TaskerPlugin.hostSupportsRelevantVariables( getIntent().getExtras() ) )
      TaskerPlugin.addRelevantVariableList( resultIntent, new String [] { 
         "%pcolour\nPet Colour\nThe colour of the pet <B>last bought</B>"
      } );

Steps to reproduce:

A1: Variable set %bar to hello
A2: Plugin action "action 1" (here you can see %bar), the "action 1" has %foo as returned variable
A3: Plugin action "action 2", here it's not possible to "see" the variable %foo

[Pent]

A1: Variable set %bar to hello
A2: Plugin action "action 1" (here you can see %bar), the "action 1" has %foo as returned variable
A3: Plugin action "action 2", here it's not possible to "see" the variable %foo

And when editing A2 and A3, both return relevant variable %foo ? Or just A2 ?

Where are you hitting the variable selector when editing A3 ? In the If condition ?

Pent

[John Doe]

No, only "action 1" returns %foo.

If condition?? I don't understand. I'm using a very simple code like that in the onCreate of the edit activity:

   if ( TaskerPlugin.hostSupportsRelevantVariables( getIntent().getExtras() ) )
      String [] passedNames = TaskerPlugin.getRelevantVariableList( getIntent().getExtras() );

[Pent]

No, only "action 1" returns %foo.

OK.
 

If condition?? I don't understand.

Somewhere in the Tasker UI you are pressing a Variable tag, right ? Where is that ?

Pent

[John Doe]

No, I'm not pressing any Variable tag button in Tasker or anything, just the + button in the task edit activity to add a new plugin action (A3 in my example).

[Pent]

Ah, I finally got what you mean :-)

Bug, will fix.

Pent

[João Dias]

Really, all this time this has been bugging me at it was not by design? :D I wish I had mentioned it sooner!

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