How to use run_after?

[madskjeldgaard]

Hi friends

I am a big fan of Overseer. Thanks a lot for making this amazing plugin. Something I have trouble getting to work is the run_after key when I edit a task. No matter what I put in to the task_names key, I get an error back about the task name not existing.

Here's an example:

I also tried putting it in double brackets to make sure it is a list of task_names, that didn't help either. I think I may have just misunderstood the docs here but I can't really figure out how to do it. Any tips?

[stevearc]

Hi! You have tripped over this exact TODO line

overseer.nvim/lua/overseer/component/run_after.lua

Line 13 in 66c3e44

-- TODO Can't input dependencies WITH params in the task launcher b/c the type is too complex

The component editor doesn't yet support complex data types like maps. The most it can do is a list of strings, or list of ints. So the issue is that it's going to be looking for a task literally named '{"shell", cmd = "sleep 4"}', which it won't find.

To get this working you can either add the component programmatically in lua, or you can define a simple named task that does what you want and put just the name after the task_names: field.