Passing container as an arg in the interactive Shell

[floral rain]

I want to build a container and then list the files in the container.

(see screenshot in red)
I tried doing this as 2 methods and then chaining them in the interactive shell,
1 - build container and return a Container instance
2- have a Container input arg, call container.with_exec([ ** llist files **])
workspace . | build-env https://github.com/westonplatter/terraform-mysql-admin.git | list-files-in-container However, the shell errored out with,
! no function "list-files-in-container" in type "Container"

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I also tried passing the container within the same function and was able to print out the files, workspace . | build-env-and-list-files https://github.com/westonplatter/terraform-mysql-admin.git.

Is it possible to pass a container from a module's function1 to function2 and read from the container file system in function 2 ? Essentially,
function1 | function2

Full code here, https://gist.github.com/westonplatter/2df32c9522045bb958f5b4ea45cd155a

[mortal cedar]

The simplest method is having your intermediate functions return an instance of Workspace, and have an attribute on Workspace for the container.

As long as functions return Workspace you can keep chaining them

[fleet current]

Is it possible to pass a container from a module's function1 to function2 and read from the container file system in function 2 ?

Yes, it is:

workspace . | list-files-in-container $(workspace . | build-env https://github.com/westonplatter/terraform-mysql-admin.git)

[mortal cedar]

Guessing this isn't possible with dagger call ...?

[fleet current]

Correct.

[rancid dew]

FWIW you can run one off calls with shell by using the dagger -c command. That is almost the same as using dagger call

[mortal cedar]

That's a simple enough substitution, I'll try it at some point. I've built modules such that containers are chained the old way