yes, this can be seen with the (current-task) function

thanks. we got a big chain of dependent tasks running, and I’d like to see the task name printed. is there a builtin verbose option for this?

There is an example in the book:

{:tasks
 {:init (def log (Object.))
  :enter (locking log
           (println (str (:name (current-task))
                         ":")
                    (java.util.Date.)))
  a (Thread/sleep 5000)
  b (Thread/sleep 5000)
  c {:depends [a b]}
  d {:task (time (run 'c))}}}

There is no built-in verbose option

oh, thank you!

Ah, I see it documented here now: https://book.babashka.org/#_run

what I settled on:

:init (def log (Object.))
:enter (locking log (println "[bb tasks] Started:" (:name (current-task))))
:leave (locking log (println "[bb tasks] Finished:" (:name (current-task))))

makes sense

Im wondering why we need this locking part?

i assumed it was to prevent printers from parallel tasks from crossing streams

yes. you could also use timbre which already does this

(timbre is built-in logger)