Skill for fixing the issue https://github.com/airflow-s/airflow-s/pull/271

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> > This was ambiguous regarding the value you wanted to retrieve and the
> intended change.
>
> While I see why we cannot (should not) bring back the "exact" behaviour, I
> think we could - potentially at least - make it non-ambiguous and
> predictable by defining the semantics and ordering and selecting the first
> one. And - I think - we do not **have** to bring it back in this particular
> method. Maybe we can just a new method call with defined ordering and
> semantics - behaving predictably, similar to Airflow 2—and clearly defined
> semantically. That would at least give people an easier way to migrate?
>
> While I think the cat if out-of-the bag and we cannot truly revert the
> change (because that would again potentially affect 3.0 - 3.2 users)  - but
> we could at least make it easier for people to cope with it without too
> much hassle while waiting for the task state to be available in this
> particular case?
>
> Just a thought I had - ... listen to your users and do things easier for
> them - without breaking our SemVer promises.
>
> J.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM Foldvari, Gyorgy via dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I do not want to use XCom for managing task state. It was just a very
>> simple - and seemingly misleading - example to explain the original
>> behavior.
>>
>> I gave details about valid use cases and issues caused by this change in
>> the behavior, in my original post. Those are not addressed by the AIP you
>> are referring to.
>>
>> But that AIP would definitely address another valid use case what I am
>> missing especially for implementing stateful sensors, so I really hope it
>> goes through and gets implemented.
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 14:49
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Reconsidering `xcom_pull(task_ids=None)` behavior
>> change in Airflow 3
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>> This was ambiguous as to what value you wanted to get, and an intended
>> change.
>>
>> If you want this sort of behaviour, then you probably want to look at
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-103%3A+Task+State+Management
>> which provides a dedicated way to manage state without many of the quirks
>> of XCom interface as it stands today. Reading between the lines, I think
>> this API describes what you want?
>>
>> -ash
>>
>> > On 15 Apr 2026, at 12:45, Foldvari, Gyorgy via dev <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I see where the confusion is coming from, it is my mistake. Sorry about
>> that.
>> >
>> > To clarify, I am taking about the use case where the key parameter is
>> passed but the task_ids parameter is not or it is None.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Foldvari, Gyorgy via dev <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 13:42
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Cc: Foldvari, Gyorgy <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: RE: Re: [DISCUSS] Reconsidering `xcom_pull(task_ids=None)`
>> > behavior change in Airflow 3
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>> > The original behavior is to return the most recent value put by any
>> upstream task of the same run. Not all the values, only the recent one.
>> > Supposing that there are multiple tasks pushing values to XCom in this
>> order:
>> > Task1: ti.xcom_push(key="example", value=1)
>> > Task2: ti.xcom_push(key="example", value=2)
>> > Task3: ti.xcom_push(key="example", value=3) Then in a downstream task
>> ti.comm_pull(key="example") returns 3.
>> > I do not propose to change this behavior.
>> >
>> > On 2026/04/14 16:09:05 Daniel Standish via dev wrote:
>> >> So the behavior before would be that it would return all xcom values
>> >> that were emitted from the present run?
>> >>
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