I have in settings.js contextStorage: { default: "memoryOnly", memoryOnly: { module: 'memory' }, file: { module: 'localfilesystem' } }, and in a function node I can access memoryOnly or file by using, for example context.get("x", "memoryOnly") However, if I use co…

Do you mean that my contextStorage spec is invalid? I agree that the syntax used is not shown in the guide, but everything works perfectly well except that I am not able to explicitly select default in a context.set/get call.

[image] Colin: want to do this as it is used in a subflow and the store to use is one of the env parameters. It would be nice to have a default there of "default" rather than "memoryOnly" which might not even be a valid store. Good question Colin - I'm not entirely surprised that it doesn't l…

[image] knolleary: I can well imagine I would have rationalised this as "well, if they want the default, just don't specify a store" I wonder if it is that or if it is that I have got default: "memoryOnly", so effectively a level of indirection is involved. Perhaps if I had default: {modu…

I can confirm that using context.get("x", "default") works ok if settings.js contains contextStorage: { default: { module: 'memory' }, file: { module: 'localfilesystem' } }, It fails if I have contextStorage: { default: "memoryOnly", memoryOnly: { mod…

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How to specify the default context store in function node

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zenofmud 27 January 2021 16:50 2

Maybe this write up will help: A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context'

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