#791 [Flytekit] FlyteFile and FlyteDirectory randomness needs to be fixed Issue created by wild-endeavor This is for @cosmicBboy, whom I cannot assign. The Flyte IDL has a type/corresponding literal that's supposed to represent offloaded binary data. These are weird names for users. Instead, flytekit takes a single part blob to mean a file and a multi-part blob to mean a directory. There is a transformer that will help translate between a file on the filesystem and Blob type. The contents are uploaded to S3 (or gcs or whatever) when converting to a Literal and they're downloaded to the os FS when converting to a Python file. In both cases, a call to get a random path is used https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/blob/master/flytekit/types/file/file.py#L244 and https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/blob/master/flytekit/types/file/file.py#L261. This is fine but if a user repeatedly calls one or the other, new paths should not be returned... we should memoize the path in the object the first time each of these is used. flyteorg/flyte