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alias: user-guide-automation-converter-anytoany
description: "This converter transforms any data type into a generic “Any” type for processing"
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# Any to Any

The simplest of converters, AnyToAny transforms any type into a type of type *Any*, serving as a pass-through. This is important when the input task expects an `object` and the output of the link task is not of type `object` and when you want to do further operations on a non-standard type.

## Settings

This converter has no settings.

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## Examples

The input value is returned unchanged; only its declared type is relaxed to `Any` so it can be consumed by downstream tasks expecting an `Object`.

| Input | Output |
| ----- | ------ |
| `123` | `123`  |

Table 1: AnyToAny Examples

### Failure Behavior

This converter never fails. The converter forwards the input value to the next task unchanged, regardless of its type. See [[user-guide-automation-converters-index]] for the full set of failure patterns across converters.