Google Earth Engine task.id not showing correct id format?

Question

const task = ee.batch.Export.image.toCloudStorage({
      //task description
  });

  task.start(() => {
    console.log("Task started: " + task.id)
  }, (error) => {
    console.log("Error: " + error);
  });

When I run the above code, the task id that is logged to the console has the form of a uuid, e.g. Task started: 45cb84eb-c9fc-4887-9016-91a4c9fdfacb, whereas if I list the operations using ee.data.listOperations(), the taskid is in a completely different format e.g. TLWZI4LX3SXU7LPMAVEZNMOG.

When I use ee.data.getOperation(task.id), I get an error message saying that there is no task with that id, but when I pass the id listed in the ee.data.listOperations() array, it works.

Is there any way to get the correct task id from the task object itself?

Answer 1

You seem to have some weird mix of Javascript and Python in your syntax, but the ID with dashes is a temporary ID before the server has assigned a real one. You have to call task.status() to get the real ID.