You can specify the URIs to download when you launch the actual process (either with your custom executor, or a Command executor. The URIs to be downloaded are set here: https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/master/include/mesos/mesos.proto#L234
It doesn't look like there's a way to do this when you send additional tasks to a preexisting executor. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM James Vanns <[email protected]> wrote: > Does a mesos task feature a URI attribute or list thereof? For downloading > data automatically within the sandbox in which the command will execute? > Eg. upon defining a task I wish to supply a list of > sources from which to download various different types of data all > destined for the container that the task executes in -- the command will > then process this data, upload any result and the downloaded data is > discarded on task completion (when the container/sandbox is destroyed). > > I can't find anything that suggests this is possible in the online > documentation - but I thought I read it some where!? > > Cheers, > > Jim > >

