Global variables not accepting types?

[tommyalatalo]

I'm not sure what behavior I'm seeing here, I'm just trying to have a top level vars definition with a list, like this:

vars:
  deps:
    - nfs-server
    - csi-controller
    - csi-node

And then use it in a task:

tasks:
  test:
    cmds:
      - echo {{ index .deps 3 }}

This errors out with this message:

❯ task test
task: Failed to parse taskfile.yaml:
yaml: line 14: cannot unmarshal !!seq into variable

Why is this failing?

[vmaerten]

I think you have some space or tab issues

This is working well :

# https://taskfile.dev

version: '3'

vars:
    deps:
      - nfs-server
      - csi-controller
      - csi-node
tasks:
  default:
    cmds:
      - echo {{index .deps 2}}

Note that you won't be able to access to index 3 because index start at 0. So there are 3 index: 0,1 and 2

[tommyalatalo]

I didn't have any formatting issues, but I was on v3.28.0 where this was indeed not working. After updating to a newer version, v3.43.3, it now works as expected.

[vmaerten]

variables others than string has been release in v3.36.0