What is stopping you from adding more functionality to the body? You can build whatever complex computational graph you like in the body and take whatever inputs you like from the enclosing graph. Also, outside of the loop, you can then do whatever you want with whatever outputs you return. As you can see from the amount of ‘whatevers’, TensorFlow’s control flow primitives were built with much generality in mind. Below is another ‘simple’ example, in case it helps.
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
def body(x):
a = tf.random_uniform(shape=[2, 2], dtype=tf.int32, maxval=100)
b = tf.constant(np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]]), dtype=tf.int32)
c = a + b
return tf.nn.relu(x + c)
def condition(x):
return tf.reduce_sum(x) < 100
x = tf.Variable(tf.constant(0, shape=[2, 2]))
with tf.Session():
tf.global_variables_initializer().run()
result = tf.while_loop(condition, body, [x])
print(result.eval())