+1 Pumped to remove confusion around tries On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 5:01 AM Wei Lee <weilee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Daniel! +1 for this one. This was confusing when I worked on the > starting from triggerer stuff. > > Best, > Wei > > > > On May 3, 2024, at 11:59 AM, Amogh Desai <amoghdesai....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Looks good to me. > > > > Personally I never ran into any issues with this so far but I agree with > > the issues it solves. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Amogh Desai > > > > > > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 2:50 AM Vincent Beck <vincb...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> I am all +1 on this one. This thing gave me headaches when working on > >> AIP-44 and I could not understand the difference between the private > >> "_try_number" and the public "try_number". Thanks for simplifying it! > >> > >> This is obviously assuming it does not break anything I am not aware of > :) > >> > >> On 2024/05/02 19:37:32 Daniel Standish wrote: > >>> TLDR > >>> * changing handling of try_number in > >>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/39336 > >>> * no more private attr > >>> * no more getter that changes value based on state of task > >>> * no more decrementing > >>> * try number now only handled by scheduler > >>> * hope that sounds good to all of you > >>> > >>> For more detail read on... > >>> > >>> In https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/39336 I am doing some work > to > >>> resolve some longstanding pain and frustration caused by try_number. > >>> > >>> The way we handle try_number has for quite some time been messy and > >>> problematic. > >>> > >>> For example, if you access `ti.try_number` and then change the state to > >> or > >>> from RUNNING, you will get a different value if you access it again! > >>> > >>> And the responsibility for managing this number has been distributed > >>> throughout the codebase. For example the task itself always increments > >>> when it starts running. But then if it defers or reschedules itself, > it > >>> decrements it back down so that when it runs again and naively > >> increments, > >>> then it will be right again. > >>> > >>> Recently more issues have become visible as I have worked with AIP-44 > >>> because for example pydantic does not like private attrs and it's just > >>> awkward to know *what value to use* when serializing it when the TI > will > >>> give you a different answer depending on the state of the task! > >>> > >>> And there's yet another edge case being solved in this community PR > >>> <https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/38984#issuecomment-2090944403 > >. > >>> And then when we start looking at try history and AIP-64, it also > >> forces a > >>> look at this. > >>> > >>> So it all sounds bad and indeed it is bad but I think I have a > solution. > >>> > >>> What I do is, just have the scheduler increment try_number at the > moment > >>> when it schedules the task. It alone will have the responsibility for > >>> incrementing try_number. And no where will it ever be decremented. It > >>> will not be incremented when resuming after deferral or reschedule. > And > >>> that's about all there is to it. > >>> > >>> I've tested it out and it works. But I'm working through many test > >>> failures that need to be resolved (there's lots of asserts re > >> try_number). > >>> > >>> One small thing I just want to point out is that if a user were > >> previously > >>> to be doing `task.run()` sort of manually without the task having been > >>> scheduled by the scheduler, well now their try_number won't be > >>> automatically incremented. Same if they just do `airflow tasks run` -- > >>> because now the responsibility is going to be solely with the > scheduler. > >>> But airflow was never designed to assume that tasks will be run without > >>> having been scheduled, so I do not think that counts as a breaking > >> change. > >>> So I don't think that's a blocker for this. > >>> > >>> Thanks for the consideration. Let me know if you have any concerns. > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@airflow.apache.org > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@airflow.apache.org > >