Shared Functions - How to handle?

[ProfessorManhattan]

Hey, so I love this program. Awesome job. It seems like its growing in stars rapidly.

I am wondering if there is a way we can share functions between tasks. I'm trying to avoid having functions in multiple tasks. Here's what I mean:

merge:package:project:
    deps:
      - :install:software:jq
    cmds:
      - |
        function ensureKeywords() {
          if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then echo "{}" > "$1"; fi
          KEYWORDS="$(jq -r '.keywords' "$1")"
          if [ "$KEYWORDS" == 'null' ] || [ "$KEYWORDS" == '' ]; then
            TMP="$(mktemp)" && jq -r '.keywords = [] | .' "$1" > "$TMP" && mv "$TMP" "$1"
          fi
        }

        function mergePackages() {
          # Ensure array exists in both JSON files
          ensureKeywords "$1"
          ensureKeywords "$2"

          # Merge the files
          jq --arg keywords "$(jq '.keywords[]' "$1" "$2" | jq -s '. | unique')" -s -S '.[0] * .[1] | .keywords = ($keywords | fromjson) | .' "$1" "$2" > "$3"
        }

        mergePackages "{{.SHARED_FOLDER}}/common/package.hbs.json" "project/package.hbs.json" "common/package.hbs.json"

  merge:package:project-subtype:
    deps:
      - :install:software:jq
    cmds:
      - |
        function ensureKeywords() {
          if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then echo "{}" > "$1"; fi
          KEYWORDS="$(jq -r '.keywords' "$1")"
          if [ "$KEYWORDS" == 'null' ] || [ "$KEYWORDS" == '' ]; then
            TMP="$(mktemp)" && jq -r '.keywords = [] | .' "$1" > "$TMP" && mv "$TMP" "$1"
          fi
        }

        function mergePackages() {
          # Ensure array exists in both JSON files
          ensureKeywords "$1"
          ensureKeywords "$2"

          # Merge the files
          jq --arg keywords "$(jq '.keywords[]' "$1" "$2" | jq -s '. | unique')" -s -S '.[0] * .[1] | .keywords = ($keywords | fromjson) | .' "$1" "$2" > "$3"
        }

        for FOLDER in project-*/; do
          SUBTYPE="$(echo "$FOLDER" | sed 's/project-\(.*\)\//\1/')"
          mergePackages "common/package.hbs.json" "project-$SUBTYPE/package.hbs.json" "common-$SUBTYPE/package.hbs.json"
        done

How are people handling scenarios like this where the same function is called in two different tasks? It might make sense to allow to set the context somewhere for shared functions if there is not already a way.

[kerma]

You're always better to handle more complicated commands in separate scripts/files. If you really want to incorporate all the code related to those functions into Taskfile you could have a dep task that generates those scripts for you.