I want to develop an Azure Data Factory (ADF) design pattern for calling focused, unit-of-work, function-y ADF pipelines that perform focused tasks. Some of these “worker pipelines” will need to return values to the calling pipeline.
In this example, I started by reading Mark Kromer‘s (excellent) article titled You can now customize the return value from your pipeline! I then crafted the simple example shown in this post to make sure I understood the principles involved before using pipeline return value (preview) functionality in more robust ADF patterns.
Follow the steps I outline below to build a simple example for an ADF pipeline that returns a value!
Click through to follow those steps.